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Thu 6 Mar, 2003 05:15 am
Post science jokes here.
A Guide to Effective Scientific Communication
A Guide to Effective Scientific Communication
Phrase
Translation
It has long been known
I haven't bothered to look up the reference
It is believed
I think
It is generally believed
A couple of other guys think so too
It is not unreasonable to assume
If you believe this, you'll believe anything
Of great theoretical importance
I find it kind of interesting
Of great practical importance
I can get some mileage out of it
Typical results are shown
The best results are shown
3 samples were chosen for further study
The others didn't make sense, so we ignored them
The 4 hour sample was not studied
I dropped it on the floor
The 4 hour determination may not be significant
I dropped it on the floor, but scooped most of it up
The significance of these results is unclear
Look at the pretty artifact
It has not been possible to provide definitive answers
The experiment was negative, but at least I can publish the data somewhere
Correct within an order of magnitude
Wrong
It might be argued that
I have such a good answer for this objection that I shall now raise it
Much additional work will be required
This paper is not very good, but neither are all the others in this miserable field
These investigations proved highly rewarding
My grant is going to be renewed
I thank X for assistance with the experiments and Y for useful discussions on the interperetation of the data
X did the experiment and Y explained it to me
This is for the future study.
I haven't studied this.
Very good, Larry, good idea. A small contribution:
How do you tell the sex of a chromosome?
-You take its genes down.
Noah was standing with his clip board watching the animals disembark... He'd gotten to the reptiles.
Cobras... 2... check.
Pythons... 2... check.
Asps... 2... check.
Adders... 1... umm...
No one could find the other adder. Seems only one had gotten aboard the ark.
Noah's wife sadly watched the lone snake as it crawled of to a wood pile that had drifted to a place near the ark.
Noah said, 'of course! Don't worry, with logs even adders can multiply!'
Hi again.
This is not a joke, exactly (sombody's idea of a bad joke, maybe) but it's scientific and it's interesting:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/sunset.asp
McT
I'll be damned, I've seen that picture 20 times in the last month.
The dark part is from a picture called earthlights. Don't know whether that's real now either.
77% of all statistics which are quoted, are made up.
the picture isn't real...it's edited. The sun never shines at the Earth from that angle
ThinkZinc - over my head!
An atom walked out of a bar and suddenly exclaimed, "I think I'm missing an electron!"
"Are you sure?" his companion asked.
"I'm positive!"
A General Guide to the Sciences
If you can't find it, it's Astronomy
If it's older than the lunch lady in the cafeteria, it's Geology
If it doesn't work, it's Physics
If it smells bad, it's Chemistry
If it squirms, it's Biology
There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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