Buffy and the War in Iraq

[VisionGirl]

Vampire Slayer Buffy Saves Iraq Reporter's Soul
by Jamie Tarabay

May 19, 2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer saved the world and the sanity of NPR's Jamie Tarabay while she was in Baghdad. Tarabay explores why she needed the slayer during her time in Iraq.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90584068

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Ooh, and another NPR story on Studying the Physics of Buffy: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9458702

I love NPR! 🙂

 

[zobothehobo]

Thanks for posting! That was really interesting!

 

[Blondie Bear]

Ooh, I have that book! It actually made physics make sense! Mostly. 😛

 

[BuffyElevated]

Wow... That's really cool and interesting!

 

[prophecygrrl]

I really love this part from the Buffy and physics interview:

Ms. OUELLETTE: That was a wonderful little item that I stumbled across while I was wrapping up the book. Lots of people are "Buffy" fans, and it turns out a lot of astronomers are, as well. They found an unusual object in space, sort of an asteroid-type object. Its orbit was just wacky. It just did not fit into any of the prevailing theories. They really couldn't figure it out. There's no, you know, obvious scientific explanation for why its orbit is so strange, so they called it Buffy.

I never knew that! That is so cool. 😀