Why Do Scientists Dance?

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With the 2010 Science "Dance Your Ph.D." contest winner announced, the Gonzo Scientist finds the roots of that terpsichorean effort in a hippie-era film from Stanford University. Inspired by biochemistry lectures by Nobel Prize-winner-to-be Paul Berg, graduate students in 1971 organized a campus-wide dance and "molecular happening" to show how ribosomes translate DNA into proteins. Berg has gotten tens of thousands of requests for the recording over the years, and has sent them out on 16-mm film, VHS tape, DVD, and now, on YouTube.