Fun with graphs

Totally ripped from mark H “blogging” it on ILE, but graph humour is always great. The rest of the paper is ok. It’s just graphs that crack me up. Every time. Also, why doesn’t this graph have a title? I would[…]

There are no matches on Google for ‘extensor molecules’. Quite reasonable, really, since no such thing exists. But according to the good people at Garnier in their new advert, these molecules are what makes their new shampoo so effective.[…]

Sickened by science. Ananova reports of the man whose penis exploded during sex. A godsend to religious celibate sthe world over, the scientific basis seems a wee bit scary. If this is what happens when all the blood cavities in the penis burst then […]

Mine’s A Galaxy[…]

NU-LEECH STYLE pt 874683
Everything old is right after all…(link courtesy somedisco)
(Tom u must post yr worms story!!)[…]

And your prize is…
Many hoary old cliches (on that subject, is there much else that gets called ‘hoary’?) have some sort of basis in sense or fact, but one that I saw for about the thousandth time in XXX tonight seems to entirely la[…]

strange geometries ahoy!!
if this “chicago blogmap” works how i think it works, it’s projecting a sector of the blogiverse back onto the stylised planar* real-world projection of the illinois city (move cursor to a station to see w[…]

Much as the Publog keeps a keen eye out for new snack food produce, Proven By Science will occasionally cast its eye at the scientific (and more probably pseudo-scientific) domestic products. And they don’t come more domestic than Domestos Pink[…]

how long is a piece of… Most science blogs I’ve scanned in the last few days are layman-unfriendly by virtue (= vice) of directing their angry passions – if any – OUT of the circled wagons (at stupid pseudo-scientists eg zzzzz[…]

haha i’m actually only linking this higher maths blog bcz it only just started and the blogger wonders how quickly ppl will notice it and i wish to demonstrate the instant omniscience everywhere of PBS[…]