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TomK: there was an interview on CBC Radio's (I think it was "Ideas") with a young scientist who said that her field was so full of jargon that nobody from outside the field could really understand much of what was said at symposiums and when planning to attend she would carefully read the description for jargon if it was outside her immediate area of expertise to make sure it wasn't full of jargon she didn't understand to avoid wasting time. Bob McDonald from "Quirks and Quarks", another CBC radio show that had originally been hosted by David Suzuki, was on the news yesterday trying to explain gravity waves to the audience with a salad bowl covered with a T-shirt. My wife said "Oh, I think I see what he's trying to get at" and I told her it gives us a model but the model is not the gravity wave, but it conveys some of the ideas in a way non-experts can visualize and understand. And this is a concept in Physics that's 101 years old.

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