I doubt there’s a grad student, past, current, or future, who doesn’t like PhD Comics. It’s a great comic take on academic research life with a few sidebars of interesting stories in science that the writer shares.
Testament to the following, there’s now a movie:
“Piled Higher and Deeper” The Movie is a live-action adaptation of the popular online comic strip by Jorge Cham (www.phdcomics.com). It was filmed on location at and was produced in partnership with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
For those of us in the Boston/Cambridge area, there seem to be two screening tentatively planned – MIT and Harvard. Though no details that I’ve found yet (will look harder).
In the mean time, here’s the trailer:
PHD Movie Trailer from PHD Comics on Vimeo.
