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This thread features a collection of science-related jokes, puns, and humorous anecdotes, primarily focusing on physics, mathematics, and engineering concepts. The discussion includes various types of jokes, some of which are derived from literature, while others are original contributions from participants.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant shares a joke about a mathematician, a dog, and a cow, highlighting the humor in knot theory.
  • Another participant introduces a joke about Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in a romantic context.
  • Several jokes reference mathematical conventions, such as the use of epsilon in calculus, with some participants seeking clarification on the humor.
  • A joke about a communication between Americans and Canadians illustrates a humorous misunderstanding, with historical context provided by a participant.
  • Participants discuss the nature of jokes, including the structure of short jokes and the implications of scientific terminology in humor.
  • There are multiple jokes involving Heisenberg, with one participant noting the brevity of a specific version of the joke.
  • A humorous take on a scientific method is shared, with some participants expressing curiosity about the referenced group of scientists.
  • Another joke involves a metaphorical description of a woman's experience during childbirth, framed in scientific terms.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally share jokes and humorous anecdotes without a clear consensus on any specific joke or concept. Some jokes prompt requests for clarification, indicating varying levels of understanding and appreciation for the humor presented.

Contextual Notes

Some jokes rely on specific scientific knowledge or conventions that may not be universally understood, leading to requests for explanations. The humor often hinges on wordplay and the intersection of scientific concepts with everyday situations.

Who May Find This Useful

Readers interested in science humor, particularly in physics and mathematics, may find this collection entertaining and thought-provoking.

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jack action said:

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Sounds like our Chief Medical Officer of Health. She is highly regarded and could run for office.
(I don't know if we have Chief Medical Officers of other things besides Health.)
 
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Why women live longer than men:

 
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Covid19. Just remembering the warnings during that Amazonian trip. Maybe I shouldn't have left that butterfly out...
 
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There's a new-fangled way to do this...
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Off topic: I've been quite impressed with the "new" ways of doing maths that my son has been taught. They seem like a huge improvement in terms of teaching you how to manipulate numbers, at the cost of being less brutally efficient. Brutal efficiency is what we have computers for...
 
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Ibix said:
Off topic: I've been quite impressed with the "new" ways of doing maths that my son has been taught. They seem like a huge improvement in terms of teaching you how to manipulate numbers, at the cost of being less brutally efficient. Brutal efficiency is what we have computers for...
I'm not sure I like this. The joke above skipped another prejudice of mine.
Once I thought Germany was the most bureaucratic country of all. Then I visited UK, and then the US, and then Russia, ...Since then I know Bones was right:
McCoy: The bureaucratic mentality is the only constant in the universe.

Since a couple of minutes ago, I thought we were the only ones who experiment with our school kids and reinvent the wheel every few years ...
 
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Acceleration is
$$a=\frac{d^2x}{dt^2}=\frac{d^2x}{2t\,dt}\stackrel{t\rightarrow 0}{\longrightarrow}\infty$$
which proves singularity at the Big Bang.
 
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Hydrogeology pun:
The dowser found more water than you can shake a stick at.

Entomology pun:
Professor: “Male dung beetles haul 1,100 times their body weight!”
Student: “That’s a load of crap.”
 
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Found this on a
The First Virtual Larval Fish Science Town Hall website:
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I like the Pacman.
 
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BillTre said:
I like the Pacman.
I once had the following dialogue:
(Me and a friend at a bar singing along a song which was new in the charts, but a cover of an old song from Linda Ronstadt or so.)
My friend: "We should pay more attention to what we sing along."
Me: "Why?"
Him: "It shows when we originally learned that song!"

I wonder whether kids today still have this pacman association.
 
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May I have a large container of coffee, cream and sugar?

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How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics, and if the lectures were boring or tiring, then any odd thinking was on quartic equations again.

Sir James Jeans and S. Bottomley
Weisstein, Eric W. "Pi Wordplay." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiWordplay.html
 
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Good that the first zero is so far away (digit 32 behind the dot)!
 
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