Final Fours   

March Madness is winding down and today is the start of the Men’s Final Four games, while the Women’s Final Four have just been determined. This year, science has also participated in March Madness, complete with brackets of its own (via Science Blogs):

(A full screen image is available here.)

Note that science is still on the sweet sixteen stage and has yet to determine the final four. Sometimes the progress of science marches more slowly than we would like. It’s probably a funding issue.

The four regions being represented are physics, scientific methods, biology, and chemistry. Not that I’m biased or anything, but may particles win!


6 Comments on “Final Fours”   rss feed

  1. Jeff

    Ordinary matter beat dark matter? We wuz robbed…

  2. JoAnne

    Jeff: indeed, that was a major upset. I was rooting for caffiene as well!

  3. Brian

    I know how it ends.

  4. Guillermo Alcántara

    Entropy wins, we all know that.

  5. graviton383

    It’ll come down to the corporates vs the invertebrates…too close to call right now unless some evolution occurs.

  6. Kea

    Brilliant post! Cheers.



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