Category Archives: Cartoon
Motivated by Wanting to Understand the Punchline
Only His Hairdresser Knows for Sure
Did Einstein discover E = mc^2?
One thing that bothers me about the “somebody had mc^2 and only had the proportionality constant wrong” arguments is that it ignores one very important point: whatever you come up with, the units have to be that of energy. So it’s not like the Far Side cartoon where Einstein has written E=mc^3, E=mc^7 and various other powers and the cleaning lady says “Everything’s squared away. Yessir, squaaaaaared away!” (and Albert has a wonderful look on his face). Funny, for a cartoon, but in reality you need a speed squared term to go along with mass in order to get units of energy. E=mc^7 doesn’t have units of energy. E=mc^2 does. So, really, showing what the proportionality factor is is really the majority of the battle.
Fluffy is Still Puffy
Basically the same as what I had linked to a while back, but in cartoon form.
Aragorn, the Physicist
Choose Your Words Carefully
Insert Mumbo-Jumbo Here
Calamities of Nature’s fill-in-the-Blank form to make you sound like Deepak Chopra. If, for some unfathomable reason, you wanted to sound like Deepak Chopra.
Is the Therapist In?
Alas, Peanutwitter has gone the way of the Dodo, if that’s a Dodo who got extincted by some copyright lawyers. I was on the edge as to whether it constituted fair use, but there is an argument to be made that it was, and this, being the blogohedron, someone has made it.
In light of this, I offer news of 3eanuts, which is Peanuts sans the last panel. Along vaguely similar lines of garfield minus garfield, that changes things.
Not that this will cheer you up.
Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters’ expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all.
This Too Can Evolve
Here then is the beta version of my strip about evolution. This is a chapter of the book Science Stories which will be out from Myriad Editions next spring. I’m sure there’ll be mistakes here, so do feel free to point them out, so that I can make the necessary changes. Thank you.
More Tubespawn
Another Twitter-cartoon marriage made possible by dem tubes: @Peanutweeter
@Peanutweeter matches kinda random Twitter posts with somewhat less than random Peanuts® comic strips by Charles Schulz.
Genius. 140 characters fits nicely into a cartoon balloon. While
I want to carry Stephen Hawking on my back, like “Master Blaster”. He’s the brains, and I’m the brawn until I get tired or he pees on me.
is funny, it’s even better when Linus says it, gesturing maniacally.