Science Humor

Science Humor pages

QuarkDance.org! - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Particle Data Group welcomes you to see its Quark Dance website which is a gateway to many exciting physics websites.

Why is the Mathematician So Messy? - Explain it if you can.

Best of RHF: Computer, Science and Math Jokes - A selection from the rec.humor.funny newsgroup.

Fun Science - A small collection of rather pointless experiments.

The Super G-String - A parody of modern string theories written in the form of a research paper.

How to Memorize Pi - Guidance on how to remember this diffuclt number to several decimal places.

Strange But Untrue Science - Explore the three key areas of Science (Phydlstics, Pharmacy and Squidgy Things) with a mad scientist.

The Galactic Core Gazette - Newspaper-style lampoon of astronomy and pseudo-science topics.

Toast Fiction - What happens when two guys are armed with a video camera, some pop tarts, a toaster, and the Pulp Fiction theme song.

Advanced Rutabaga Studies Institute - A survey of recent developments in rutabaga science, complete with the Live Rutacam, rutabaga recipes and images from World Headquarters in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Solar Death Ray - Using the power of 112 suns to burn, melt, and destroy things.

Mathematical humour - Definitions, anecdotes, and limericks about math and mathematicians.

Cosmic Debris - A look at life on Mars, anti-matter, plain old gravity and other cosmic phenomena from our favorite frivolous essayist, Gary Greenberg.

Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen - There is nothing like making your own ice cream, but the problem is, it just takes too long to freeze and some things just don't like to freeze.

Sometimes Science Sucks - Webcomic about science and the situations that occur when it all goes wrong.

Tetrahedron - Science-related fiction, journal and images.

Pop-Tart Experiment - A site documenting one failed and one successful attempt of the experiment.

Stop the Spin - Satiral organization dedicated to stopping global warming by stopping the spin of the earth.

The Adventures of Discriminant Boy - The bumbling Discriminant Boy is just the Zero mathematics needs.

The Icelandic Phallological Museum - Probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found in a single country. Multilingual.

Beer Me Diet - Lose weight by drinking beer.

Intellectual Hair - Humanising scientific discovery and achievement by way of light hearted and somewhat scientific entertainment.

Math Humor - Short page of jokes and lists.

Profession Jokes - Physicists - A collection, including 'you might be a physicist if'.

Scientific AmeriKen - Delves into many scientific disciplines to come up with some unusual insights and experiments.

Mathematical and academic jokes - A collection of academic jokes with an emphasis towards mathematical ones.

Fenton the Death Sheep From Hell - Membership (minionship), celebrities, news, sports, sheepcentric website links, sheepocracy project, and a 'sheepish' language version of the page.

Science Maniac - Miscellaneous jokes and trivia about astronomy, Einstein, animals, and plants.

Ask Dr. Science - America's foremost authoritarian on the world around us. Or at least the world around him.

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide! - This dangerous substance is found both in the environment and in our body.

B.S.L Labs - Inventors of funny, strange, and unusual items including the Universal Llama Translator and Polytetrafluoroethylene Coated Underwear.

Good Science Jokes - Scientific humor, jokes, and cartoons organized by topic.

CooperToons - Science cartoons indexed by category: physics, chemistry, life sciences, medicine, and computers.

Metric Conversion Chart - For those of us who hate conversion problems (and who doesn't?), here are some conversion factors that are much more enjoyable than what we usually see in the back of the textbook.

Engineering Joke of the Week - Approximately 150 jokes are in the archive.

The Math Humor Page - A collection of math humor links.

The Canonical List of Math Jokes - Part of the Index of Canonical Lists. Plenty of other fun stuff on the site as well.

Topology Cartoons - From the Topology Atlas.

BBspot - Overclocker Creates Rift in Space-Time Continuum - A rift in the space-time continuum was created when overclocker Jamie Aperman ran a 750 MHz Coppermine Pentium III at 1.6 GHz. It appears that the CPU was operating so fast that it began to execute instructions before they arrived.

Science Entertainment - Home of Lynda Williams, the Physics Chanteuse.

Math Jokes - A collection of jokes about math and mathematicians.

The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams - 'Education and Condescension' - Fighting ignorance since 1973, Cecil Adams takes questions from the teeming millions, spewing forth correctness week after week in his replies.

Angels on a Pin - The possibly true story of the many possible ways of determining the height of a building using only a barometer.

Garlic Surprise - Effect of ale, garlic, and soured cream on the appetite of leeches.

Patently Silly - Commentaries about unusual patents issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office. Provides links to the actual patents.

You Might Be an Engineer If... - Answers to this classic question.

Fun with Grapes - Ordinary grapes, when properly prepared and microwaved, spark impressively in an extremely entertaining manner.

Profession Jokes - Mathematicians - Jokes about mathematicians (part of the Profession Jokes site)

Unwise Microwave Oven Experiments - Stuff not to do.

Psycho Humor - Quotes, jokes, cartoons, and stories.

Agent North Seven East - Geological James Bond-type movies, complete with illustrations!

Statistics Jokes - Henry Bottomley's collection.

The Selman-Troytt Memorial - Victorian England's greatest champion of the life sciences, who scaled literary heights before being crushed by falling masonry in 1916.

Career Guide for Engineers and Computer Scientists - Dark humor about getting PhDs and all that entails. Especially cutting are the sections about employment opportunities for those with 'advanced training.'

IG Nobel Prize - Awarded every year at Harvard University for 'achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced.'

Science and Medicine Humor - A long list of links to biology songs and jokes, with some other science humor as well.

Flaxon Alternative Interface Technologies - Home and underground research and development facility of the Evil Doctor Flaxon, located in the heart of the Nevada nuclear test site.

The Effects of Moore's Law and Slacking on Large Computations - We show that, in the context of Moore's Law, overall productivity can be increased for large enough computations by `slacking' or waiting for some period of time before purchasing a computer and beginning the calculation.

Profession Jokes - Biologists - Jokes about biologists and biology (part of the Profession Jokes site).

Einstein, Heisenberg, Tipler - A story of interviews between these men and God, intended to determine if they should enter Heaven.

Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature - Etymologies, puns and funny sounds, wordplay, and more in taxonomy.

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