Humor

The Humor Of Mark Twain Mark Twain would have made a world-class blogger. He could write most wittily on just about any topic. Here is a selection of Mark Twain quotes on the topic of lies and truth. I have been working like sin all night to get a lectu ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 22 2010 - 10:08pm

Scoop! Newsflash! No Science At IPCC!

WARNING! Very bad joke alert. Please engage brain before reading further. Scoop! Newsflash! No Science At IPCC! Following hot on the heels of recent news about emails, glaciers and rainforests comes a new discovery that will warm the hearts of climate ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 27 2010 - 5:13pm

Random Noise #18: We Was Robbed

Random Noise #18: We Was Robbed Well, of course, that should be 'we were robbed', according to the rules of conventional grammar. But the phrase 'we was robbed', often written as 'we wuz robbed' has become part of the lexico ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jan 31 2010 - 9:45am

Random Noise #20: Aude Alteram Partem

Random Noise #20: Aude Alteram Partem Aude Alteram Partem- hear the other side- is a principle of administrative and natural law which states that a fair hearing requires that both sides of a legal contest or argument be given an equal opportunity to be h ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 4 2010 - 7:31am

The fight to block your arteries

Clogged arteries everywhere are taking sides in the sure-to-be epic battle for your cholesterol-induced death. The Phoenix Sun Times opens the article with the following paragraph: "A battle of the bulge has broken out between two restaurants that fea ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 5 2010 - 9:44am

Love CO2

Love CO2 If you like this crazy gag enough to want to copy it then please credit me by using this link: http://www.scientificblogging.com/chatter_box ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2010 - 4:17pm

Some Gems Of Comment Spam

Some Gems Of Comment Spam We get a few spam comments here, promoting all sorts of rubbish web sites. Currently, we seem to be targeted by people who want to do our writing for us. Now, given that scientificblogging.com is promoted as "The world' ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 13 2010 - 7:57am

Of Snakes And Oil

Of Snakes And Oil A headnote explaining the need for the footnotes The author not wishing to superimpose an overabundance or superfluity of operose terms, has subpended copious footnotes for the edification of the non-indigenous benefactor of the globalis ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 11 2010 - 3:21pm

Playing in the snow!

For those not living on the East Coast or regions around Atlanta, be thankful that you (a) live in an area that can actually deal with snowfall, or (b) don't live in an area that gets snow. It is fun to see who was wandering through the blanketed land ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Feb 15 2010 - 11:44am

Movie Science vs Real Science

Time for my irregular not-semi-annual roundup of recent science webtoons. Today we have a pair of comics detailing the difference between Movie Science and Real Science. Enjoy! Alex Tues and Fri here, via RSS feed, and twitter @skyday Read about my own p ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Feb 16 2010 - 8:33pm