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John Stewart from the Daily show invited Rick Santelli from CNBC (financial network) to the Daily show. He canceled and or as John puts it “bailed out” but John showed their special segment about CNBC’s mistakes anyway (watch it here). Jim Cramer from CNBC wrote an article and his article made John to respond on [...]

A friend of mine send me a video documentary in YouTube (Von Göttern und Designern, Christlicher Fundamentalismus part 1) about a School in Germany in which they teach “Intelligent Design” in parallel to Evolution theory. Although they teach both “theories” to children the school teacher says that he believes in creationism and as a result [...]

Sarah Palin has become the victim of a prank phone call by a Canadian comedian posing as the French president. While discussing a hunting trip together by a helicopter, the comedian said: “I just love killing those animals. Mmm, mmm, take away life, that is so fun,” Even after this exaggerated comment Sarah Palin didn’t [...]

A colleague of mine was searching for an article in Pubmed today and because of typing mistake she found this article. This is an article in Physics Journal (PDF original paper), and the reason I’m writing about it is the number of authors (I did not count but definitely more than 200 authors) and these [...]

As all of you know the European Championship is starting in a few days and Germany’s first game is with Poland. This is a funny advertisement for this match and it is about German and Polish football fans, and how they behave! P.S. If you’re wondering where are the Polish fans in this video I [...]

In the recent volume of Lab times I read about the (bad) effect of beer on number of publications by scientists! (You can read the online version here Page 14). Well, honestly sometimes if there was no hope of one (or a few) cold beer after work scientific work could’ve been much more difficult don’t [...]

Sometimes my friends who are not in the field of science ask me what is a PostDoc! Well I finally found the perfect answer for these questions! Watch the series of PostDoc comics in PhDcomics to see what I mean comic1; comic2; comic3; comic4. I had also previously posted a comic from PhD comics here.

Well it seems that this comic explains why DNA, Collagen and alpha helix are all right handed. Take a look at Madeline’s comic page you can find other funny scientific comics.

A joke: A Bee was passing next to the Nile River when he noticed a frog. He asked the frog: “I’d like to go to the other side of the Nile, is it possible that you take me with you?” The frog answered:”No, I’m afraid to die, you might sting me on the way”. The [...]