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Dave Kellet jokes about a visual illusion the visual pop-out phenomenon, in his webcomic Sheldon. Click the cropped image to see the full comic strip. Thanks Dave!
[Thanks, T.N. for the correction. Two blog posts about it here and here.]
It's not very funny, but it's about a topic that comes up around here often (groans...). That said, this is something you'd expect to see over at Genomicron, not evolgen. In fact, the guy looks a bit like a young TR Gregory.
For the full strip, go here.
A reader asked me, in response to yesterday's post, why I failed to make any mention of the Mobius Strip. Addressing that topic seemed like a good way to close the week's blogging.
Imagine that you take a long thin strip of newspaper. Hold it at the top with your thumb and index finger, and let…
PZ has been dealing with the idiocy that is Scott Adams of Dilbert "fame". (The last word is in scare quotes because, frankly, I don't find Dilbert funny. At all. Never have. Never will.) And what is worse, PZ's had to deal with the apparent apostles of Adams who seem to think that a cartoonist…
I supose it's not worth pointing out that they do more than one test and just edit for brevity?
I suppose it's not worth pointing out that editing for brevity and such like misrepresents how science is done?
Zombie Feynman disagrees: http://xkcd.com/397/