Ask Dr. Science:
America's foremost authoritarian on the world around us. Or at least
the world around him.
http://www.drscience.com
HotAIR: Annals of Improbable Research:
International science humor magazine, rival to the Journal of
Irreproducible Results, AIR chronicles genuine and concocted
research from Earth's best and worst scientists and science writers,
and administers the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Many articles
online not in the print version, and vice versa.
http://www.improb.com/
The Journal Of Irreproducible Results:
The official organ of the Society for Basic Irreproducible Research.
In its 44th year, the JIR presents satirical and critique articles
emanating from and about the scientific and medical community.
http://www.jir.com/index.htm
The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams:
"Education and Condescension" - Fighting ignorance since 1973, Cecil
Adams takes questions from the teeming millions, spewing forth
correctness week after week in his replies.
http://www.straightdope.com/
Science Jokes (Joachim Verhagen's site):
Collection of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and
university humor. It also includes humorous quotes, rhymes,
mnemonics and anecdotes about scientists
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/
Scientific Quotes Gathered on the Net:
Miscellaneous quotes, including: what in the world is electricity,
and where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
Metric Conversion Chart:
For those of us who hate conversion problems (and who doesn't?),
here are some conversion factors that are much more enjoyable than
what we usually see in the back of the textbook.
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Humor/Funny-Metric-Chart.html
Middle School Science Humor:
Statements taken from the work of middle school students.
http://www.middleweb.com/MShumor.html
Science Humor:
Quotes from 11-year-olds' science exams, and what NOT to do/say at
your Ph.D Defense.
http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~amyb/humor.html
Bad Science Projects:
The scientific method gone terribly, terribly wrong. Scientists with
too much time on their hands.
http://www.badscienceprojects.com/
Science and Math Jokes:
A weird and wacky place filled with links to all sorts of science
jokes.
http://members.aol.com/WES425/index.html
The Magic of A.I.:
Entertaining tidbits from the realm of Artificial Intelligence.
http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/silverberg/484
The Metric System Sucks:
A unit conversion utility, message board, a comparison the two
systems of measurement, and a look at who uses this system.
http://www.metricsucks.com/
CooperToons:
Science cartoons indexed by category: physics, chemistry, life
sciences, medicine, and computers.
http://members.aol.com/ChipCooper/science.html
Eric Schulman's Science Humor:
Includes "How to Write a Scientific Paper," "The History of the
Universe in 200 Words or Less," and other articles and essays, most
published in The Annals of Improbable Research.
http://members.verizon.net/~vze3fs8i/air/index.html
Paradoxical Quotations:
A micro collection of quotations that are paradoxical but are not
paradoxes
http://www.geocities.com/illogie/
Flaxon Alternative Interface Technologies:
Home and underground research and development facility of the Evil
Doctor Flaxon, located in the heart of the Nevada nuclear test site.
http://www.sonic.net/~dfx/fait/
Butseriously.com:
Comic Brian Malow hosts a live daily webcast featuring interviews
with scientists, authors, techies, artists, musicians and others.
http://www.butseriously.com
Science Humor Webring:
This ring is intended to join websites with humor about science and
scientists, so that you can wander forever along the science humor
sites.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scihum/webring.html
Science Entertainment:
Home of Lynda Williams, the Physics Chanteuse.
http://www.entersci.com/
The Deirdre Project:
An investigation into a spatial and temporal anomaly, a dish which
refuses to clean itself.
http://physics.webplasma.com/d_project/
South Pacific Institute of Nolledge:
Te Ngstitute Pikamanaga O Pasifika. A satirical look at modern
corporate research institutes: nolledge, boffins, sustainable
managers, ambush marketing, and electron retrospectroscopy.
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~epidote/Company/institute.html
Blunders and Mistakes of Science:
A compilation of mistakes which are the result of misapplication or
ignorance of science and engineering principles.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/whoops.htm
The Dark Sucker Theory:
Dedicated to those hardy, brave souls who know the deeper truth and
aren't ashamed to admit it: that so-called "light sources" are
really dark suckers.
http://www.netcom.com/~rogermw/darksucker.html
The V. Excellent Dictionary Group:
An unusual collection of words and quotes depicting the lifes of
three ordinary teenagers during their A-level science courses.
http://members.aol.com/masteroftwang/dicthome.htm
ScientificGospel.com:
Prompted by a letter from Dr. Eugenie Scott in Science News noting
that the creationists have all the good songs, Dr. Stephen Baird
decided to address the long neglected problem of scientific gospel.
Includes music, quotes, and merchandise.
http://www.scientificgospel.com
Bob Meyer's Premier Web Pages:
Americans for Cloning Elvis (ACE), Americans for Cloning Dead
Celebrities (ACDC), Bob Meyer's Compendium of Elvis Sightings.
http://www.geocities.com/bobmeyer99
The Wildlife Biology Jokes Page:
A personal collection of jokes. Also includes links to ecology
magazines.
http://home.attbi.com/~wildlifebio/Jokes.htm
OmniResearch, Inc.:
The Journal of Omniresearch Online publishes original humorous
research articles in a broad range of scientific topics.
http://igoresha.virtualave.net/OmniResearch
Science Maniac:
Miscellaneous jokes and trivia about astronomy, Einstein, animals,
and plants.
http://members.fortunecity.com/alberteinstein
Sometimes Science Sucks:
Webcomic about science and the situations that occur when it all
goes wrong.
http://sss.keenspace.com/
Good Science Jokes:
Scientific humor, jokes, and cartoons organized by topic.
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/sciencejokes.html
IG Nobel Prize:
Awarded every year at Harvard University for "achievements that
cannot or should not be reproduced."
The Underwater Mouse Project:
Documents an underwater mouse. Plenty of pictures and illustrations
are included.
http://www.underwatermouse.com
Strange But Untrue Science:
Explore the three key areas of Science (Phydlstics, Pharmacy and
Squidgy Things) with a mad scientist.
http://strangebutuntrue.tripod.com/science/main.htm
Yes, It's Patented:
List of strange inventions which have actually been patented.
http://www.archvillain.com/pats.html
Science Song Center:
Lyrics and music for parody songs devoted to science.
http://www.ups.edu/faculty/gcrowther/Misc/Songs/
Pepsi Bottle Rocket:
Model rockets made out of plastic pepsi bottles, complete with some
sample rocketry calculations and theoretical flight characteristics.
http://www.mrp3.com/bobf/pepsi_rocket.html
Why Is The Sky Blue:
Features funny scientific misinformation and silliness.
http://www.why-is-the-sky-blue.tv/
Save the Electrons:
A campaign to save the uncountable numbers of electrons that are
wasted everyday.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~jjs2/electrn.html
Secret Truth Net:
A light hearted look at science, UFOs, mysterious artifacts,
conspiracies and bizarre and unusual phenomena.
http://secrettruth.net/
Reality Carnival:
A news site that explores the edges of science: altered realities,
near-death experiences, unsolved mysteries, exotic sushi, parallel
universes, religion & science, weird & fun, sex, beauty & brains,
fantastic memes. Edited by science writer Dr. Cliff Pickover.
http://www.pickover.com/realitycarnival.html
The Icelandic Phallological Museum:
Probably the only museum in the world to contain a collection of
phallic specimens belonging to all the various types of mammal found
in a single country. Multilingual.
http://www.phallus.is/
Fun Science:
A small collection of rather pointless experiments.
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/dudeland/
The Sciencist:
A satirical journal of science featuring groundbreaking research,
experiments and reports.
http://www.thesciencist.org
Society for Scientific Exploitation:
Promoting the belief in exotic, aberrant, or supernatural
explanations for ostensibly anomalous or paranormal phenomena.
http://members.tripod.com/~ssehome/
Casebook of the Queer and Strange:
A non too serious study of the UFO, crop circle, supernatural
phenomena and a look at the so-called Apollo moon landing hoax.
http://uk.geocities.com/a_c_darke/
