Humor

Behold true tales of procrastination! Learn whether to get a PhD! Or just kick back and enjoy fall. Enjoy another science webcomics interlude! The first two are 'long form', so follow their links to get the full story. The last, a poetic com ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Sep 3 2010 - 10:33am

This is a blog post about a funny parody

Yesterday's Guardian featured this gem, "This is a news website article about a scientific paper", by Martin Robbins. It begins: "In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the subject matter before posing an inane questi ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Sep 28 2010 - 10:22am

Baseball, Vision And Alcohol: Analyzing The Zito Curve

This article has basically nothing to do with baseball or Barry Zito's curveball so you can stop reading if that is your interest- or check out The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Fastest A Pitcher Can Throw? The Science Of Baseball: What Is The Fa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2010 - 8:45pm

The best typo you will read today

An article at TBD.com by Amanda Hess is about HIV-positive black gay men. Okay, so far so good. But it had an important typo, namely a key letter left out of a word, and the correction at the top now reads: If you can't read it... ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 11 2010 - 5:27pm

Fishy irony

From Yahoo News. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 17 2010 - 12:38pm

Dear Mayans: Sorry For The Misunderstanding

So the only food that we knew could survive the apocalypse has been driven out of business by its own employees, who also teamed up with single mothers, minorities and atheists to overwhelmingly re-elect a guy determined to jump off a fiscal cliff right ju ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 23 2012 - 1:35pm

A Good Year For The 'A' Word: Fido Report, 2010

Anthropomorphizing, the process, as Twain might say, of “underestimating the animal by assigning to him human traits,” has had a good year. The reasons range from the continuing dominance of the Obama dog, Bo, on Fox News (Bo: “Socialist or simple anarcho ...

Article - Greg Critser - Oct 20 2010 - 3:49pm

Communicating with academics: A guide

Statistically, whichever of these you are not will be funny. The one you are, not so much. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 25 2010 - 6:41pm

The Say Of The Week

Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts. Henry Blaha ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Oct 30 2010 - 4:16am

Learn Molecular Biology the "Jersey Shore" Way

If you aren't familiar with the cultural lowest common denominator that is the faux reality show "Jersey Shore", well, you are lucky. It follows the travails of some truly idiotic youngish (and pudgy) people as they drink and fight their ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 4 2010 - 6:11pm