{"651507":{"#nid":"651507","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Comedy of Science ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhile science and humor appear to be mutually exclusive fields, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/lewlefton.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ELew Lefton\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;faculty member in the School of Mathematics, Associate Vice President for Research Computing, and\u0026nbsp;Assistant\u0026nbsp;Dean for Information Technology in the\u0026nbsp;College of Sciences, has bridged these two seemingly distant worlds by performing science comedy and investigating the science\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;comedy. Lefton\u0026nbsp;began performing standup as a hobby while a graduate student in the 1980s.\u0026nbsp;Today, Lefton\u0026nbsp;continues to bridge these two passions, making science the subject of his comedy; \u0026ldquo;Comedy is the noun; science is the adjective.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAssoc. VP for Research Computing, EVPR,\u0026nbsp;Asst. Dean for IT, College of Sciences\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2021-10-07 13:37:02","changed_gmt":"2021-10-07 13:37:02","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Lauren Garten","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/scienceatl.org\/the-comedy-of-science\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-08-31T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"168854","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"175670","name":"Lew Lefton"},{"id":"4086","name":"comedy"},{"id":"189009","name":"science of comedy"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}