An example of what academics do to blow off steam:
This is a detail of a long whiteboard hanging in the basement hallway near my research lab. Sometime this fall, a colleague divided part of the board into a grid, and wrote "Sheep drawing contest! Rules: Draw a sheep" at the top. Students and other faculty did the rest (this image includes three of my own contributions-- see if you can guess which ones).
Since this was taken, the department technician has added first, second, and third-place prize ribbons on magnets, so people can judge the drawings. We're easily amused.
More pictures below the fold:
- Log in to post comments
More like this
In case helping preschool special ed students by providing materials for science exploration isn't rewarding enough, the Scienceblogs overlords at Seed Media have made two really enticing offers.
First, Seed is matching the first $15,000 donated by scienceblogs readers during the challenge. I think…
I had an enlightening experience recently, after I wrote some bioinformatics activities, under contract, for a community college. At the end of the project, the person at the college asked me if the activities were anything like the things that a "bioinformatics technician" would do on the job.…
It's now officially February, and the release date for How to Teach Relativity to Your Dog is only a few weeks off-- the official release date is Feb. 28. Of course, I've got a copy already:
If you would like a copy of your very own, you can either wait until the release, or take part in this…
As y'all know, a frequent topic of conversation here is communicating science to the public. While many of us do it directly via sites such as this one, the bulk of science writing that the public will read is done by the pros--people writing for the magazines and newspapers, among other outlets…
High-res versions!
Oh, fine. These are all 300-600 K:
detail
left
<right
I'm going to have to fish this comment out of my own spam filter, I know it...
*laugh* These are great!
LOL. Brilliant! Those made my day.
I don't see a spherical sheep of uniform density in there...should I assume one?
I need to know who started this, since I know your colleagues..
How about thirty sheep on the back of a motorcycle in an inverted t formation? http://www.imiracle.co.kr/shopping/contentsimg/screenshot3_sheep.jpg
Battle Sheep FTW!
I particularly like the "Vampire sheep looking in a mirror". That particular sheep is so perfectly drawn.
I wanna know how a vampire that doesn't have upper front teeth is gonna cope, though.
#5 - Jamie beat me to the punchline - I was thinking the exact same thing...
Correction - it is there! In the third photo, top row, about 1/4 way from the left hand edge...
No sheep with cow horns?
"Bull Sheep"
BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA! Is it time to go home yet?
It's kind of an inside joke for anyone who has lived in Central America. I just about fell out of my chair when I saw "Bah... pues."
I don't see a scholar-sheep ... but I'm going to assume there is one.
And a sheep wreck.
Perhaps you drew: 'A physics graduate sheep', 'Para Sheepium', and 'Village Sheeple'?
And you were thinking of drawing a MSM viewing, black box voting 'sheep', but thought better.
I couldn't spot Schrödinger's sheep, but perhaps the two(?) representations of the equation will suffice
Very funny. I had an assignment for a folklore class I took in college which involved drawing cows, and all of mine were spherical.
http://lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2007/06/spherical-cows.html