Festival of the spoken nerd: just for graphs
Yuandi Li reviews the science stand-up trio’s touring show. But was their performance off the charts?
Festival of the spoken nerd is a group of three science comedy and outreach performers. Through live stage shows, they explain and demonstrate scientific and mathematical concepts in an entertaining and easy-to-understand manner, peppered with jokes and pop culture references. In Just for graphs the trio walk us through visual representations of data, ranging from the familiar, such as Venn diagrams, to the obscure like Chladni figures as well as the downright bizarre (one formula in particular was rather delightful).