Science Humor

National Lab Mustache Day (NLMD) strives to celebrate mustaches in the science laboratory over the ages. From Golgi, to Hochstrasser, to Ramaswami, to Vale, NLMD honors mustaches of all shapes and sizes. NLMD culminates this year on February 13th 2009 with lab mustache parties across the country and around the world. Everyone is invited to [...]

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List of Ig Nobel Prize winners (2008)
* Archaeology: Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Jose Carlos Marcelino, for showing that armadillos can mix up the contents of an archaeological site. (Brazil)
* Biology: Marie-Christine Cadiergues, Christel Joubert, and Michel Franc, for discovering that fleas that live on dogs [...]

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According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected scientific journal, the more beer a scientist drinks, the less likely the scientist is to publish a paper or to have a paper cited by another researcher, a measure of a paper’s quality and importance.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/science/18beer.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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Queen guitarist Brian May has handed in his astronomy PhD thesis - 36 years after abandoning it to join the band.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6929290.stm

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The second-generation tasting robot that was recently developed.
A wine-tasting robot has been developed by researchers in Japan.

http://www.necst.co.jp/english/news/20060801/index.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5312220.stm

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Thousands of rubber ducks to land on British shores after 15 year journey
In the intervening time an oceanographer, Curtis Ebbesmeyer, has devoted his retirement to tracking the little yellow ducks and their friends over 17,000 miles, and it is he who has predicted that this summer they will land in the
West of England. Mr Ebbesmeyer [...]

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