Comment by fouc
9 hours ago
it's physically painful for everyone else to listen to you talking about your topic.. if you talk for too long that is. :)
9 hours ago
it's physically painful for everyone else to listen to you talking about your topic.. if you talk for too long that is. :)
The (in)famous astronomer Tycho Brahe died from a bladder infection after politeness prevented him leaving the audience on such an occasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Illness,_death,_an...
Indeed! It's said that no talk should be longer than a microcentury.
https://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf
https://susam.net/microcentury.html