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David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.

Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.

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Is this funny? I think this is funny - "American Idol" World Court

Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Posted on: August 3, 2006 8:45 AM, by David Ng

I quite enjoyed this Shouts and Murmurs piece by Paul Rudnick. Wish I thought of it first.

RYAN: And I think it looks great. Now, what about global warming?
RANDY: Yo, dawg, when you say "global warming" do you mean, like, sitting by the fire with your lady and getting down to a spicy slow jam by my man Barry White?

PAULA: Oh, oh, or do you mean, like, actually warming the globe? Like toasting one? Wouldn't it melt?

SIMON: He means, you idiots, that because of human greed we're in very real danger of ending life as we know it.

Will the madness never end? I wonder what the conversation would run like if an individual like Bush weighed in as well...

(link to humour piece here)