Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Humor

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Martin Perscheid "Ceres Science" on Facebook 15 August 2024; see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Perscheid Previously o...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

Ashleigh Brilliant, Tom Lehrer, and the Limits of Humor

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Arthur Koestler explained humor as an intersection or juxtaposition of two different meanings which then creates a new meaning of its own. H...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Discoveries and Inventions

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Discoveries are identifications. Inventions are creations. Fire existed in nature and its discovery by a human required a focus of identific...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Gilda Radner: It’s Always Something

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Gilda Radner died of ovarian cancer. It is pernicious and aggressive, not curable or even treatable. She spent most of her last 30 months in...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Some Sociology of Academic Astronomy

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You need a sense of humor and of all the puns, one-liners, walking into a bar, and knock-knock jokes that could be invented, the words of th...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Gershon's Equation

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 Today, I discovered the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, founded 1 March 1947 in Las Cruces, New Mexico. I had no idea that th...
Thursday, July 2, 2020

Glutton for Pun-ishment

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We buy this brand of meats at the Wheatsville Co-op here in Austin. I was fixing dinner last night and the pun occurred to me. Ground bison....
Sunday, April 23, 2017

Newton and Leibniz

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No one got the joke. The office  has a lot of nerds. Our boss earned his master's in anthropology.  My wife said, "The human brain ...