Top 10 geeky turkey facts for conversation at Thanksgiving dinner table
Americans eat tens of millions of turkeys each year on Thanksgiving….but what the heck is a turkey really? It’s a heckuva of strange bird, isn’t it? Here in Davis, CA we have a huge population of wild...
View ArticleRobots versus scientists
Robots versus scientists? Over the centuries, humans have sometimes had a fear of replacement, whether it is by another human as exemplified in Dostoevsky’s classic short story The Double (or other...
View ArticleScience humor: penalties we’d get if research was like sports
Time for some science humor. For past attempts at humor on this blog see here. Today, I’m asking: if science was more like sports such as football, soccer, basketball, etc., what penalties and fouls...
View ArticleTop 10 Halloween costumes that scare scientists
Some scientists might be relatively immune to the fear of things that nonetheless freak out many everyday normal people: brains, lasers, genetically modified bacteria or viruses, radioactivity. The...
View ArticleThe nonsensical list of stem cell journals
The list of stem cell journals seems to grow longer every day. In fact, the list is so long and some of the names kind of funny that it inspires coming up with a slew of satirical and nonsensical stem...
View ArticleTwo Thursday science jokes: chimera & bioethics
Science humor can be fun especially if it has an edge to it and if one is a bit burned out on grant writing. In that spirit, we have two silly science jokes for a Thursday. Why did the professor [...]...
View ArticleStem cells run amok: Jill Howlin’s satirical cartoon look
Jill Howlin’s drawings about science and policy have a unique, edgy style that packs a punch. I have invited her to weigh in here now and then with new illustrations that touch upon stem cell or other...
View ArticleGiant Pumpkin Stem Cell Supplement Cream: Halloween Satire
We’ve bottled the power of giant pumpkin stem cell magic and are providing it to the world! Giant Pumpkin Stem Cell Elixir Anti-aging Supplement & Cream-In-OneTM is your ticket to a better life....
View ArticleBest science license plate for me
My daughter saw this in a parking lot. Wish it was my license plate. The post Best science license plate for me appeared first on The Niche.
View ArticleInsults 2.0: more ways scientists skewer each other
Yesterday I put out a post as a guide for scientists to insult each other. More insults have been forthcoming from the blog readerships including some even nastier ones. Most are just downright mean,...
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