Humor archive
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The complaint of Schrödinger's cat
From the LabLit science verse series
John Lowell (28 Sep '08) -
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Massive particles 'too fat to come out in public'
Unification may require a change in attitude
Kate Oliver (21 Sep '08) -
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Conference nightmares
The many faces of scientific presentations
Philip Strange (27 Jul '08) -
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The double flip-flop and other stratagems
Life beyond editorial deadlines
Bernard Thierry (1 Mar '08) -
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Itchy bums and other tales
Inside the mind of a celebrity scientist
Joseph McCrumble (16 Dec '07) -
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Undergrad invasion
Another academic year, another round of giveaways
Rivka Isaacson (7 Oct '07) -
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Selling the dream
How biotech ads stimulate scientist's pleasure centers
Thomas Robey (9 Sep '07) -
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Losing the flip-flops
When lab safety competes with fashion
Rivka Isaacson (24 Jun '07) -
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The news from Switzerland is very bad
(Or: where did that Higgs particle get to?)
John Lowell (3 Jun '07) -
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Nerdy verse
Poems for my scientific mind
Rivka Isaacson (27 May '07) -
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Boot force
A scientific approach to car maintenance
Ian Brooks (26 Nov '06) -
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The Quasi-Kuhnian shift:
An interview with Dr. Quintin Huber, The Leprechaun of Science
Tal Yarkoni (30 Sep '06) -
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The tree of strife
Post-docs deserve their own species designation
Helen Pickersgill (17 Sep '06) -
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Questionable judgement?
Even Newton had to please the peer reviewers
Anne Osbourn (12 Jul '06) -
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Logic, labs and lucky pants
Science may be rational, but scientists certainly aren’t
Kat Arney (18 Jan '06) -
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Breaking News:
Cosmologists Take up New Techniques from Evolutionary Biology
John Lowell (4 Sep '05) -
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What not to touch
The Lab Hag engages with her inner child
Frankie P. (19 Apr '05) -
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The Science Detectives
Another fine script from the makers of Mrs. Fermat’s Lost Theorem and Darwin’s Dustbin: The Shocking Secrets His Household Rubbish Revealed
John Lowell (31 Mar '05) -
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Advice from a Science Parent
It’s not just what you read, but when you read it
Mark Miodownik (31 Mar '05) -
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"It has not escaped our notice..."
In which readers are invited to nominate their favorite one-liner from a scientific paper -
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Some of my best friends are scientists
True confessions of a lab hag
Frankie P. (7 Mar '05) -
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Underneath my lab coat, I'm naked!
One woman argues that labs should be sexed up
Kat Arney (7 Mar '05) -
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TV listings: this week on Supersoap!
The continuing saga of our feckless physicists...
John Lowell (7 Mar '05)