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Friday, 5 February 2010

Bernstein comes to Harvard

Check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTLbqQPJeYs it's quite amusing. Clearly these guys have too much time on their hands and you could write a whole dissertation on the sub-text underlying it (please don't). Despite my intellectual sympathies I think it might be more fun to hang out with the Quals.
Posted by Colin at 03:59

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