Sadly, this collection of cartoons mostly shows why Science and Humour are commonly considered to be unmixable substances. A few of the jokes are actually funny, but they’re rarely the ones that actually deal with scientists, or science as such, but rather ones inspired by or loosely based on scientific ideas. A few years back, […]
This is the story of Monty Mouse, his adventures in the world, and his eventual return to his mother and his home. No need to leaf through the thing, for the cover shows all that’s wrong with this book in a nutshell. To wits: Monty “Mouse” is not a mouse, he’s a stuffed, dead rat, […]
a message written on the clouds Manche Dinge weiss man, insofern als man die richtige Antwort gäbe, würde man gefragt. Man ist dann aber doch überrascht, wenn die Umstände einem dieses implizite Wissen explizit machen. Ich zum Beispiel hätte die Temperaturunterschiede zwischen verschiedenen Asphaltformen zwar durchaus vorhergesagt, die Intensität der fleischsengende Hitze insbesondere der schwarzen […]