A.C. Wise

Science is sexy. Science fiction is sexy. Geekitude in general is sexy. The interwebs agree, and why would a series of tubes lie to a person?

Wired Magazine is holding a poll for readers to vote for the sexiest geek of 2009. Judging by the results so far, Wired’s readership is primarily made up of straight men, lesbians, or straight women who find other women sexier than they find men. Tor.com has their own version of the poll based on their initial criticism that Wired’s poll was full, not of actual geeks, but those who play geeks on tv. Both polls are kind of fun though, and provide further proof that brains can be just as important as bodies, and when you combine the two…yowza!

I amused myself while walking home from the train by trying to come up with someone I would add to the list. The best I could come up with was a dark horse candidate with no shot of winning, seeing as he’s been dead for nearly a hundred years. Other than that minor detail, I think he’s pretty good candidate.

Thomas Eakins.

He was an incredible artist, an early adopter of photography, a total medical science and anatomy geek, and for an old-timey dude, he was kind of a hottie in an brooding, and occasionally smirky kind of way. As an extra bonus on the sexiness front, he was not at all opposed to using himself a nude model.

So that’s my out of left field choice. Who would you add to the list?

Oh, and on a related front, proof that science itself is sexy, the first two entries on the Top Ten Weird Science Moments of 2009 are about sex - specifically vat-grown rabbit penises and bat sex. So there.

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