Funny science
It’s true that some scientists are rather short on social skills (there are even stereotypes between scientific disciplines–just ask a biologist to do her impression of a chemist…). However, it’s also worth noting that there are many delightful exceptions.
A Berkeley friend’s blog, NCBI ROFL, has recently gained internet fame as a repository of hilarious abstracts available in one of the leading search engines for the life sciences. Their recent success got me thinking about other icons of internet science humor. Here are a few examples:
- Along similar lines to NCBI ROFL, though spanning all scientific disciplines: The Annals of Improbable Research.
- Greg Crowther is a professor studying infectious disease who also writes a wide variety of science songs.
- Naturally, it was a British lab that set out to uncover the world’s funniest joke. (It’s kind of funny…that’s what happens when you try to please everybody.)
- National Lab Mustache Day is exactly what it sounds like: a large fraction of my lab participated this year. I’m on the left edge, second from the top:
Tags: funny scientists, humor, ncbirofl
July 6th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Some abstracts are not as funny as the picture that goes with them. Thanks ACS!
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic0352250