Thursday, May 6, 2010

some of the science jokes that I like:

  • Men are mammals and women are femammals (Linnaeus would have ben apologized and Schiebinger’s critique would have been obliterated)
  • Galileo showed that the earth was round and not vice versa. He dropped his balls to prove gravity (Kepler would have been angry that his first law was violated: a posthumous contravention rather than a posthumous eulogy)
  • All animals were here before mankind. The animals lived peacefully until mankind came along and made roads, houses, hotels and condoms. (almost mistake it for a feminist critique of modernization and sexual oppression. The resemblance of condoms and mankind is uncanny)
  • Mare Curie did her research at the Sore Buns Institute in France. (feminists would be mixed in their reactions: the historically misogynist institutional culture at Sorbonne coupled with a gender-charged title)
  • Algebra was the wife of Euclid. (why not make it the descendant of 九章算術?)
  • Geometry teaches us to bisex angles (Will George more attracted to Geometry because of his role in “bisexing”?)

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