Chemistry Ph.D. Student Turned Her Thesis into a Comic Book

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3 points·JohnHammersley··4 comments

This is a pretty cool thing to decide to do, and even more impressive to be able to pull it off. Here's the link to her site with more details on the "Atomic Size Matters" comic she created: http://www.veronicaberns.com/atomicsizematters/

Cool indeed! as once a phd I hate reading papers. they are unnecessarily complex, even though the ideas are simple. a lot of times, they are complex for the purpose of looking professional and being accepted, not for the purpose of understanding.

I also want to do something similar myself. my first plan is a comic about bitcoin. I understand how difficult it is to pull it off.

btw, I love writeLaTeX!

On a related note, a really cool thing happened at a conference I went to last year -- there was an artist in the audience who sketched the talks as they were given to produce a single page thought-bubble summary!! They looked amazing, and generated a lot of discussion in the pub afterwards :)

Not sure if they're all online, but the one of me is here: https://www.filepicker.io/api/file/TIBDmf66Q5WPBF3ZBzKY

PS: Thanks re writeLaTeX -- exciting times ahead (we relaunched as Overleaf at the start of the year and things are growing pretty quickly!)

yes, I also know Overleaf. Good stuff. you are solving real problems, wish you success. :)

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