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Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. She studies hair cell regeneration in the cochlea, and is trying to finish that quixotic quest called 'thesis.' She lies awake at night pondering how science intersects with politics, culture, policy, money, medicine, and religion in an attempt to be more than just a niche scientist sitting in the oh-so-lovely ivory tower. Follow me and my parrot, Pepper, on our quest to finish my PhD, land a post-doc, and stay sane.

Steve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is really a Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studying high level vision. You know... stuff like scene & object perception.

While not an official contributer to 'Of Two Minds,' Shelley's sidekick is an African Grey parrot named Pepper. His heros are Irene Pepperberg, Alex, and Rachel Carson. He spends his time learning Mandarin and writing the Great American novel.
"Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life." ~Rachel Carson

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Sunday Morning Funnies

Category: Brains and Stuff • Humor
Posted on: March 9, 2008 7:30 AM, by Steve Higgins

Welcome to a new weekly feature here at Of Two Minds, the Sunday Morning Funny Pages - well more like the Sunday morning single comic. Shelley or I will have an exciting new comic here every Sunday morning that should, at the very least, make you roll your eyes - and maybe even chuckle once or twice. Hey! we're working with science here - the joke is only as funny as the source material. Perhaps one day we'll find something really really funny so you better be here to check!

So without further blabbering... here's our first comic:

-via Meningioma Mommas-

Wasn't funny enough for you? Yeah me neither... Maybe you should order "Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain: How to Come Up with Jokes for Cartoons and Comic Strips" from Amazon and write some really funny sciency/brainy jokes for us! If you come up with something funny we'll certainly post it! Send your submissions to either steve@oftwominds.org or shelley@oftwominds.org

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I assume you are intimately familiar with xkcd, a self-proclaimed "webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Pretty hilarious in assorted ways.

Posted by: #1 Dinosaur | March 9, 2008 11:50 AM

Yes, I love xkcd! Surely to be the subject of Sunday funnies of the future. (As well as PhD comics)

Posted by: Shelley Batts | March 9, 2008 9:58 PM