Humor in Science and Theology

This seems like a helpful summary:

[mouseover text: It’s very hard to detect, but recent studies have determined that when plasma B cells are producing antibodies, they go “pew pew pew”.]

xkcd: Lymphocytes

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That diagram would have been very helpful in hematology class.

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I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this above sometime before in eons past, but it seems it would fit nicely again here (one wonders if it was photoshopped*, but it could be real – stranger things have happened):


*http://imageedited.com/ can’t tell.

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We each do take up space in a finite universe after all! So it makes sense that some would want us to pre-pay.

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This could really throw a monkeywrench in our recent anti-natalism discussion. :wink:

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My view is that we’ll each get back our body when it was in the best physical condition.

When I was growing up the answer would have been 200 or so – that’s all the items we would have had.

Small world.

Some with said it would be “Holiday” if physics was fun.
So I used magic tape and carefully changed mine.

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I’d settle for getting back my body when it was in optimal operating condition for the duration of this life … even if I have to use it more sparingly and do much more regular maintenance. :wink:

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For all the professors out there:

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I wonder if I could get an Rx (that includes insurance coverage) for a really boring lecture class on something I don’t care about. These days, I don’t care much WHEN I can get some sleep. Just good Lord, let me get some MORE sleep than I’m getting now.

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I’ve heard that if a CD8+T cells score a critical hit they become a 2CD8+T cell… :game_die:

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More than 90 actually! I think the postman was being just a bit obtuse.

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That makes you acutely sensitive. :roll_eyes: Or OCD? :grin:

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I am jealous of my daughter whose diploma from Rice is on a real sheepskin. And yes, they offer a vegetarian option at graduation.

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For a long time now I’ve wanted a bumper sticker that says “Put the coke back in Coke”.
We ran the numbers once and to get the same amount of cocaine from an original Coke as for a mild hit it would be necessary to drink somewhere around 5k bottles.

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There are more arrows coming down from the bubble with words than there are singers.

There’s an invisible alien.

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What, did they try to simply walk into Mordor?

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