There was a mock-that-which-you-don’t-understand article in New York magazine recently: The Ten Most Ridiculous-Sounding Math Classes Currently Offered at Liberal-Arts Colleges . A pretty good takedown of this exists at Halfway There (found via Science After Sunclipse)
The pride with which some people proclaim their math/science illiteracy is beyond me.
The correct link for the Halfway There is:
http://zenoferox.blogspot.com/2010/10/laughing-at-what-you-dont-understand.html
Dang. Two link errors in the past few days. Someone’s gonna get fired around here; copy-paste shouldn’t be that hard to do.