Sunday Osbcure Science Photo Caption Contest – or – The New Yorker Does It, Why Shouldn’t Terry*? – or – “Sos-pic-cuh”
The New Yorker has a weekly cartoon caption contest where readers send in their own cartoon captions to a provided cartoon. The editors then choose three…
Read articleBuy Your Very Own Robot Army
These are cool: HEXBUG feels its way around sensing objects in its path and avoiding them. And they can hear! You control where they scurry through…
Read articleArmageddon – the flowchart.
No doubt, many of the students of ASIC 200, noticed that a prevailing theme of the first lecture and a half, was something along the lines…
Read articleHow To Act Out “Thermodynamics” In A Game of Charades
Thermodynamics Ok – one word, five syllables, first two syllables… [crudely embodying the second law? source] Dr. Ng jokingly challenged last week’s class to attempt “thermodynamics”…
Read articleSaving the Environment
You’re at a vegetarian restaurant with Julie, the hippie chick from your fitness club. It’s your first date, and things are going nicely when, across the…
Read articleStem cell humour.
The petri plate is the work of Satan. How does God know what a petri plate is in this ancient time before the advent of scientific…
Read article“Understanding Food Labels You Might Encounter at Whole Foods.” This is funny.
And so topical in light of our speakers coming up. Again from the venerable McSweeney’s. Free Range: Animals raised with a free-range lifestyle have plenty of…
Read articleBecoming a professor is hard these days…
I wrote a humour piece on Faculty hiring a while back. With the UBC budgetary status so challenged these days, I’d imagine some of the criteria…
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Is All Science Humour Punny?
By Dave Semeniuk,
I wrote this on my lab’s blackboard about a month ago: I was curious about what sort of jokes the my lab mates and users would…
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