Hat-tip to F.R.
Category Archives: Fun and Humor
The Real Pliocene Hominin
Just for fun! Hat-tip to Sue Sheridan.
Link to youtube The Real Pliocene Hominin.
And for a more serious video that covers human evolution, here’s one from last year: Meet the Family: Human Evolution.
Dino Comics: Too Much Rage
Ryan North is the artist, and you can see his work over at Dinosaur Comics at qwantz.com. The hat-tip goes to Greg Laden, who featured this comic in his post Anonymity and Behavior Change.
Matrix and Windows
The Matrix Runs on Windows is a very funny video created by CollegeHumor. Enjoy!
Connector or Polarizer by Wondermark
I recently posted Demons on the Web, which discussed the phenomenon of internet-based communities that arise around what many of us might label mental disorders. (I am absolutely sure that all of you read Kotaku religiously for its coverage of gaming…) So here is a great cartoon from the web-comic Wondermark which is penned by David Malki:
Wondermark: All are Shaped by Circumstance
Many thanks to Brian Johnson of Recursive Sagacity for pointing this out!
PhD Comics: Piled Higher and Deeper
Meg Towle, a former student of mine and now on a Marshall Scholarship, sent me this link to PhD Comics. Very funny. Here’s one I found that was particularly appropriate for Meg:
Our own Paul Mason just used a PhD comic in his latest post on the travails of field work. If you want to know more about the comics, including the 200 most popular ones, go here. You can even get books collecting the work of Jorge Cham, the cartoonist who has compared me to a ninja.
Coincidentally Meg and I just published an article together entitled “Community Approaches to Preventing Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission: Perspectives from Rural Lesotho .” So kudos to Meg!
The Adventures of Little Sacc
Little Sacc was a happy little dude who liked to eat sugar and liked to make beer,
He was always polite and never rude, he liked to smile and he would never sneer.
But the story of Little Sacc isn’t so happy it’s true, his plight is somewhat tragic let me make that clear.
In all the happiness of making a drink, His real future just went down the sink.
But is his destiny so different from our very own?
Should we really smile on this fella whose death we condone?
Dying in his own excrement is no heroic fate,
But who are we to judge? Let me explain, just wait;
