Collection of Science Jokes P2

[Ivan Seeking]

The Coolidge effect is a biological phenomenon seen in animals, whereby males exhibit renewed sexual interest whenever a new female is introduced, even after sex with prior but still available sexual partners.[1][2][3][4] To a lesser extent, the effect is also seen among females with regard to their mates.[3]

...In a 1974 letter,[9] behavioral endocrinologist Frank A. Beach claims to have introduced the term "Coolidge effect" in either 1958 or 1959.[10] He attributed the neologism to an old joke about Calvin Coolidge when he was President of the United States.[11]

The President and Mrs. Coolidge were being shown [separately] around an experimental government farm. When [Mrs. Coolidge] came to the chicken yard she noticed that a rooster was mating very frequently. She asked the attendant how often that happened and was told, "Dozens of times each day." Mrs. Coolidge said, "Tell that to the President when he comes by." Upon being told, the President asked, "Same hen every time?" The reply was, "Oh, no, Mr. President, a different hen every time." President: "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

The joke appears in a 1972 book (Aggression in Man and Animals, by Roger N. Johnson, p. 94).[12]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163104788904189?via=ihub
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coolidge_effect
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/289...effect is the,dishabituation in women and men.

 

[nuuskur]

 

[Ibix]

Holiday project for the relativity forum:
https://xkcd.com/3033/

With respect to the rules about dangerous activities, pay careful attention to the alt text.

 

[Orodruin]

Holiday project for the relativity forum:
https://xkcd.com/3033/

With respect to the rules about dangerous activities, pay careful attention to the alt text.

Reported as spreading personal theory (considering the theoretical max number of folds of a standard paper being 7).

 

[Ibix]

Reported as spreading personal theory

Hey! xkcd is a perfectly valid technical reference.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[collinsmark]

I'm not sure if this officially qualifies as humor, since it is a real study. But I find the video hilarious. (Make sure to keep watching for at least 30 seconds or so.)

Ants best humans at test of collective intelligence​

Link to "Science" online magazine article:
https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-best-humans-test-collective-intelligence?utm_campaign

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[mfb]

I'm not sure if this officially qualifies as humor, since it is a real study. But I find the video hilarious. (Make sure to keep watching for at least 30 seconds or so.)

Ants beat humans when the humans are forbidden to communicate.

 

[collinsmark]

Ants beat humans when the humans are forbidden to communicate.

Right. The video is still funny though. I was expecting just sciencey stuff, but then got what looks like something out of a Benny Hill episode.

 

[fresh_42]

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[Ivan Seeking]

I never trusted polar coordinates.
It is circular logic.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

 

[DaveC426913]

You would need to have been aged about 17, and listening to Pink Floyd in 1973. That makes you about 70 now.

Spoiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon

Or been about 10 at the time with a teenaged stereophile brother. Some of us youngests are head of our time.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[Orodruin]

Except step 8 being impossible …

 

[Arjan82]

Except step 8 being impossible …

Really? How disappointing I had already started to fold my own black hole...


_{Ps: read the topic of this thread again...}

 

[jbriggs444]

Except step 8 being impossible …

Mythbusters managed 11. But started with a piece of paper that fit in an airplane hangar.

 

[Orodruin]

Mythbusters managed 11. But started with a piece of paper that fit in an airplane hangar.

The assumption I think is standard A4 or letter.
… although those would also fit in an airplane hangar …

 

[Bandersnatch]

Even if you were somehow able to fold it as many times as you'd like, it still wouldn't work. You'd be turning the sheet into a thin, long thread. So you're not compacting the mass beyond the sixth fold, when an A4 most resembles a cube.
(that's the joke, I know, but being the ackchyually guy is the PF way)

 

[Ivan Seeking]

All doorways should have a warning sign: Walking through this doorway too slowly may cause you to diffract.

 

[fresh_42]

All doorways should have a warning sign: Walking through this doorway too slowly may cause you to diffract.

But if you're too fast you might use the doorway next to it!

 

[phinds]

But if you're too fast you might use the doorway next to it!

I think that's only if you have a split personality.

 

[DrGreg]

But if you're too fast you might use the doorway next to it!

You could use both doorways, but only if nobody's looking.

 

[fresh_42]

I think that's only if you have a split personality.

Nope. I minimum of uncertainty is enough.

 

[fresh_42]

 

[collinsmark]

(Source: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/precise)

 

[ohwilleke]

From https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5480

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Why is it that everyone is perfectly fine with imaginary numbers, but throw in some imaginary physics and everyone gets an attitude?

But then I guess any physics that uses imaginary numbers is imaginary physics. This is getting complex.

 

[Ivan Seeking]