What makes scientists laugh?

By evolvingthoughts on June 17, 2008.

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Chicken.

Duck?

Goose!

Chicken

Every Topic In The Universe Except Chickens

How many of those 68,700 were free range? It is a little hard to tell what the distribution is on the chart.

I've got the paper this talk is based on somewhere. I do wonder what the referee reports said, though.

Egg!

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?

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