Humor archive
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Gene for oversimplified science coverage discovered
(It was only a matter of time)
Chris Niswander 16 December 2015 -
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Maze
An existential tale
Liam Hogan 11 August 2012 -
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Unnatural diets
Composing fiction in synthetic media
Rachel Rodman 31 March 2012 -
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Lab noir
A man's gotta have a skill
Nik Papageorgiou 11 December 2011 -
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The first rule of a PhD...
If Chuck Palahniuk wrote lab lit
Nik Papageorgiou 11 September 2011 -
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Text as genome: the new literary geneticists
The case of the Jane Austen zombies
Rachel Rodman 14 August 2011 -
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Safety first
How to survive a lab zombie attack
Nigel Eastmond 30 June 2011 -
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Give generously
It could have been you
Nik Papageorgiou 23 December 2010 -
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Moss circles: evidence for a third alien species
The truth is out there
John Lowell 3 November 2010 -
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Dear colleagues
A note of appreciation
Roy Gray 29 August 2010 -
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Dear Hollywood, from Science
We need to talk
Dean Burnett 13 April 2010 -
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The complaint of Schrödinger's cat
From the LabLit science verse series
John Lowell 28 September 2008 -
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Massive particles 'too fat to come out in public'
Unification may require a change in attitude
Kate Oliver 21 September 2008 -
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Conference nightmares
The many faces of scientific presentations
Philip Strange 27 July 2008 -
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The double flip-flop and other stratagems
Life beyond editorial deadlines
Bernard Thierry 1 March 2008 -
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Itchy bums and other tales
Inside the mind of a celebrity scientist
Joseph McCrumble 16 December 2007 -
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Undergrad invasion
Another academic year, another round of giveaways
Rivka Isaacson 7 October 2007 -
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Selling the dream
How biotech ads stimulate scientist's pleasure centers
Thomas Robey 9 September 2007 -
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Losing the flip-flops
When lab safety competes with fashion
Rivka Isaacson 24 June 2007 -
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The news from Switzerland is very bad
(Or: where did that Higgs particle get to?)
John Lowell 3 June 2007 -
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Nerdy verse
Poems for my scientific mind
Rivka Isaacson 27 May 2007 -
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Boot force
A scientific approach to car maintenance
Ian Brooks 26 November 2006 -
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The Quasi-Kuhnian shift
An interview with Dr. Quintin Huber, The Leprechaun of Science
Tal Yarkoni 30 September 2006 -
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The tree of strife
Post-docs deserve their own species designation
Helen Pickersgill 17 September 2006 -
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Questionable judgement?
Even Newton had to please the peer reviewers
Anne Osbourn 12 July 2006 -
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Logic, labs and lucky pants
Science may be rational, but scientists certainly aren’t
Kat Arney 18 January 2006 -
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Breaking News:
Cosmologists Take up New Techniques from Evolutionary Biology
John Lowell 4 September 2005 -
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What not to touch
The Lab Hag engages with her inner child
Frankie P. 19 April 2005 -
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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 March 2005 -
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Advice from a Science Parent
It’s not just what you read, but when you read it
Mark Miodownik 31 March 2005 -
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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
7 March 2005 -
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Some of my best friends are scientists
True confessions of a lab hag
Frankie P. 7 March 2005 -
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Underneath my lab coat, I'm naked!
One woman argues that labs should be sexed up
Kat Arney 7 March 2005 -
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TV listings: this week on Supersoap!
The continuing saga of our feckless physicists...
John Lowell 7 March 2005