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For those @IGAC_ECS attending the @IGACProject #ECS short course, do make sure to give the #UpGoer5 challenge a 1st attempt or two in advance via @theosanderson's text editor (linked below). I've left one I wrote for my #PhD thesis there as an example: splasho.com/upgoer5/?i=GKx…
Essentially the challenge is to use the thousand (or “ten hundred”!) most commonly used words in the English language can you describe your #PhD thesis or area of science? (full list linked here: splasho.com/upgoer5/phpspe…)
This idea started from a comic strip by the engineer and illustrator Randall Munroe (xkcd.com/1133/). Here they tried to find a way to explain something very complicated (The NASA Apollo Space programmes’ Saturn V rocket) using just simple words. 
