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Generic science journalism
Want to be a science writer for a major media outlet? Martin Robbins shows you how in this parody of the standard science news article.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: humor, journalism, science
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Biostatistician vs. lab researcher
I found this crudely produced animation of a dialog between a biostatistician and a lab researcher painfully funny: The technique used to produce it, a text-to-movie site called xtranormal.com,...
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Why I don’t do wet-lab work
I knew there was a reason I didn’t do wet-lab work—in this year’s Ig Nobel prizes: PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Manuel Barbeito, Charles Mathews, and Larry Taylor of the Industrial Health and Safety Office,...
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Snarky comments from reviewers
Environmental Microbiology recently published a fun, free article “Referees’ quotes – 2010” (DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02394.x). The article consists of quotes from referee comments in the...
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PhD Challenge
PhD Challenge has announced a new contest: We are excited to announce that the new 2011 PhD Challenge is now open for submissions. The goal of this year’s challenge is to get either the nickname “Dirty...
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Johns Hopkins: A Model University
Johns Hopkins University does an annual PR video (something that is beyond the imaginations of the administration at University of California campuses). This year’s video is quite amusing: Johns...
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The Very First Apple Movie | Rick’s Algeblog
I read a lot of math teacher blogs. A new one that looks promising is http://www.algeblog.com/, written by Rick Harrington, a math teacher from CT. I particularly liked his post including the first...
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A counterpoint to my plea
Some time ago I posted a plea to students, postdocs, and faculty to go to more seminars: What college students (and professors) do wrong. In response, a postdoc just sent me a link to the humor piece...
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Dangers of automatic markup
The FreeLibrary has automatic markup (with mouseovers) of acronyms. This sometimes leads to ludicrous results as seen in this screenshot of a Google search: Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: humor
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Fake websites
I was recently pointed to an excellent collection of fake websites, spoof websites, science spoofs, commercial fake sites. This is a good place to find pointers to sites like the Pacific Tree Octopus,...
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A physics teacher’s reaction to anti-science witch hunts
Frank Noschese, a physics teacher, has written a rather amusing “letter to parents” on his blog Dear Parents | Action-Reaction, including such gems as Giggle-inducing Scientific Terminology. Uranus,...
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YouTube closed captions are awful
I looked at the automatically generated closed captions on the Oscilloscope video and they were awful—pretty much just word salad. Speaker-independent voice recognition is obviously not a solved...
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I mentioned today to my wife that I needed to remove the tea ball from my tea before it got strong enough to trot a mouse across (the Irish standard for how strong tea should be, but not to my taste...
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