Category: Humor

  • Ten Years of Natural Selections

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    By Daniel Briskin Continuing on with our salute to the tenth anniversary of Natural Selections, here is this month’s republished comic from 2004.

  • New Science journal to publish exclusively through Twitter

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    By John Borghi Building on several recent developments in academic publishing and social media, a new publication platform for the distribution of scholarly material was announced this Wednesday by The Society for Concise Science. The new online platform, named after the chemical name of the protein, titin, (which is 189,819 letters long and, thus, cannot…

  • Artificial Brain Gains Sentience, People Lose Minds

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    By John Borghi Though it made a surprisingly small splash on the convention floor, the biggest news coming out of this year’s Society for Neuroscience conference were reports that the computational model of the human brain known as “Robby” has gained sentience. In a sparsely attended symposium, the husband and wife team of Roy and Irmgard…

  • Classic Classifieds

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    The classifieds are a great place to borrow, buy, sell, and make announcements. Additionally, they can be a means to infuse humor into the doldrums of campus life. In this column, with the permission of the author, we publish classifieds we have found to be espe- cially entertaining. If you think a classified is worthy…

  • Highly Cited Paper Does Not Actually Exist

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    By John Borghi Sending ripples through a scientific community still reeling from news that an artisanal science laboratory in Brooklyn, NY has documented the existence of phlogiston, a highly cited paper concerning the discovery of the alleged chemical compound known as bolonium has been proven to not actually exist.

  • The Comic Strip

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    Contributed by Daniel Briskin “Understocked” reproduced from xkcd – a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language.  xkcd.com My biology grad student friends tell me that different types of alcohol don’t actually have different effects.  I trust their expertise, not because of the ‘biology’ part, but because of the ‘grad student’. July/August 2013