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What makes scientists laugh?
Category: Humor
Posted on: June 17, 2008 9:36 PM, by John S. Wilkins
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Chicken.
Posted by: Laelaps | June 17, 2008 10:21 PM
Duck?
Posted by: Eamon Knight | June 17, 2008 10:28 PM
Goose!
Posted by: Zeno | June 17, 2008 11:10 PM
Chicken
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | June 17, 2008 11:27 PM
Every Topic In The Universe Except Chickens
Posted by: Cody | June 18, 2008 12:27 AM
How many of those 68,700 were free range? It is a little hard to tell what the distribution is on the chart.
Posted by: Susan Silberstein | June 18, 2008 1:15 AM
I've got the paper this talk is based on somewhere. I do wonder what the referee reports said, though.
Posted by: Bob O'H | June 18, 2008 1:18 AM
Egg!
Posted by: natural cynic | June 18, 2008 4:06 AM
If you'll forgive the tangential OT here...
I was looking for an AIR (?) article the other day, and my vague recollection was that it was mocking the kind of boilerplate "directions for further research" summary that typically closes academic papers. The text has something along the lines of "No further research on this topic should be attempted, ever.". My google-fu is evidently weak, as I can't find the citation.
Does this ring any bells/URLs with anyone?
Posted by: wk | June 19, 2008 2:59 PM