6.05.2012

Physics or Fashion!

Science aficionados have odd and surprising interests and one of them is... Fashion!

The paragraph below was written by Mark Fischetti on November 16, 2011.
I found it on Scientific American website.

"People who are intrigued with physics are somewhat intrigued with computer science, too, but they are crazy about fashion. Who knew? Hilary Mason did. At Scientific American’s request, the chief scientist at bitly (www.bitly.com), which shortens URLs for Web users, examined 600 science Web page addresses sent to the company’s servers on August 23 and 24. Then she tracked 6,000 pages people visited next and mapped the connections (below).

The results revealed which subjects were strongly and weakly associated. Chemistry was linked to almost no other science. Biology was linked to almost all of them. Health was tied more to business than to food. But why did fashion connect strongly to physics? And why was astronomy linked to genetics?"

Do you want to know why did fashion connect strongly to physics? Both discipline are an analysis of nature! They are all about volumes, forces, spacetime, motions and energy!
I never heard of a fashion designer nor a physician that work without close consideration to those elements...
Seriously. Contact me if you know one!

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