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Spurious Correlations. 10 Science Jokes for Nerds. How Many Will You Get? 1. I’m reading a great book on anti-gravity. I can’t put it down. 2. I have a new theory on inertia but it doesn’t seem to be gaining momentum. 3. Why can’t atheists solve exponential equations? 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 20 Jokes that only intellectuals will understand :) Great moments in Science (if Twitter had existed) | Dean Burnett | Science. A lot of news these days comes from, or is about, Twitter. Entertainment magazines and shows seem to be entirely dependant on celebrity Tweets, like those fish that feed on the random things that fall out of a sharks mouth.

It's not all random utterances and spats though. Time magazine recently ran an article about the most intelligent celebrities on Twitter. And those of us in the science field are regularly encouraged to Tweet about our research. But what if these two approaches were combined? What if famous scientists were on Twitter, at the time of their greatest discoveries? Obviously the vast majority of celebrated scientific discoveries occurred before Twitter even existed. (Explanatory links in the titles, for those not familiar with the references) Pythagoras Andreas Vesalius Tycho Brahe Rosalind Franklin Charles Darwin Thomas Edison Erwin Schrödinger Jonas Salk Phineas Gage Florence Nightingale Ivan Pavlov Alan Turing.

50 People On ‘The Most Intellectual Joke I Know’ Mine: “Descartes walks into a bar and the bartender asks him what he wants to drink. Descartes says ‘hmmm, I don’t know’ and vanishes in a puff of logic.” Watch_Closely: It’s hard to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they always take things literally. eclipsechaser: Boris Spassky was once asked by a reporter, “Which do you prefer: chess or sex?”. Spassky replied “It very much depends on the position”. selorn: “I’m a linguist, so I like ambiguity more than most people.” phattmatt: Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. Balloseater: Q: What does the “B” in Benoit B. Guitartard: “is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?” Doomwaxer: Did you hear about the jurisprudence fetishist? PeterImprov: A physicist, a mathematician and an engineer were each asked to establish the volume of a red rubber ball.The physicist immersed the ball in a beaker full of water and measured the volume of the displaced fluid.

Ambivalist: ianschenck: Razakel: Ayotte: lkj8: Tableaux périodiques divers. Bill Hicks - L'évolution (vostfr) Ciel mon doctorat ! Les 7 questions les plus stupides habituellement posées lors d'une soutenance de thèse. Science Humour | Exposition : La science, une histoire d’humour. Virus / Rétrovirus | Science Humour. Chat de Schrödinger | Science Humour.