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Category: Cartoon

Cuuuut!

24 June, 2009 (03:00) | Cartoon, Journalism, Science-general | 1 comment

“Filming in the lab” is the recent them at PhD comics, and this one grabs the essence. (Or you can start at the beginning, if you’re one of the type that needs to do that.)
I’ve been filmed in the lab and interviewed on TV once, and I’ve observed my colleagues being filmed and interviewed. [...]

Smashing Pumpkins. Or Something.

3 June, 2009 (04:51) | Cartoon, Humor, Physics | No comments

It’s not the squirrel smasher, but it’s close. Abstruse Goose does the Toad Totaler
But … stationary target? It would be much more efficient to have the lab frame also be the center-of-mass frame (i.e. counter-propagating frogs)

Oh, Sure. Take All of the Fun Out of It.

28 May, 2009 (03:00) | Cartoon, Humor, Physics, Silly | 2 comments

A Unified Quantum Theory of the Sexual Interaction
In the simplest theories of the sexual interaction, the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian describing all allowed forms of two-body coupling are identified with the conventional gender states, “Male” and “Female” denoted |M> and |F> in the Dirac bra-ket notation; note that the bra is superfluous in this [...]

What He Said

26 May, 2009 (12:20) | Cartoon, Journalism, Science-general | No comments

PhD Comics: The science news cycle

Keeping With the Theme

5 May, 2009 (06:03) | Cartoon, Physics | No comments

More childrens’ stories physics.
Built on Facts: The Physics of Rapunzel
[T]he plot revolves around her letting down her hair. Hair has weight, and so she’s going to have to have some strength to hold up the weight of all that hair.
I have a cartoon for this, too, though not about the tensile strength of hair.

Let’s Violate Causality, Too

5 May, 2009 (05:52) | Cartoon, Physics | No comments

Chad points out the physics problem with Goldilocks in The Faulty Thermodynamics of Children’s Stories
The description provided of the other two bowls, though, is not consistent with known physics. The Mama Bear, as the other adult, ought to have the second-largest bowl of porridge, which, in turn, ought to be the second-warmest bowl of porridge [...]

The Aren’t Angry, Either

21 April, 2009 (04:01) | Cartoon, Science-general | No comments

Mad Engineers

Start Making Sense

10 April, 2009 (05:05) | Cartoon, Physics | No comments

Click the cartoon to go to XKCD. The hover tag is worthwhile, as usual.

A Second Opinion

8 April, 2009 (04:58) | Cartoon, Science-general | No comments

TV isn’t real, especially when it comes to science. PhD comics gives an independent confirmation.

Hoist on Your Own Petard

20 March, 2009 (04:53) | Cartoon, Other science | 1 comment

Silicon Food

The Dream

18 March, 2009 (05:20) | Cartoon | 4 comments

XKCD becomes a waking nightmare

I also have the one where I’m back in the navy, teaching, and no one is paying any attention.

Doctor Bilko

10 March, 2009 (05:06) | Cartoon, Education | No comments

The Profzi Scheme
(The only pyramid that can possibly work is the Fonzi scheme, where you convince everyone to be cool.)

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