Category: Funny Ha Ha

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Ig Nobel Prizes 2005

The 2005 Ig Nobel Prizes are out! The physics prize goes went to the University of Queensland:

PHYSICS: John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell of the University of Queensland, Australia, for patiently conducting an experiment that began in the year 1927 — in which a glob of congealed black tar has been slowly, slowly dripping through a funnel, at a rate of approximately one drop every nine years.

I’ve actually seen this glob of black tar. Little did I know I was looking at an experiment of Nobel proportions! Makes me wish I’d taken a picture of it.

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You're Next Gravity

Via Pharyngula:

NEW YORK, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Science vs. Religion. Evolution vs. Creation. It is an age-old battle whose time has come. “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” will gather together all the experts (or at least those who will talk to them), travel to the places that matter in the debate (basic cable budget permitting) and ultimately settle the controversy once and for all. “Evolution Schmevolution: A Daily Show Special Report” will premiere on Monday, September 12 and air nightly at 11:00 p.m. through September 15. For one full week, “The Daily Show” goes in-depth, around, through and quite possibly under, one of the hottest hot-button issues facing our nation: evolution. It’s the accepted theory on the origin of life by an overwhelming majority of the world’s biologists, but maybe they’re all wrong. What’s so great about the scientific method anyway? “Evolution Schmevolution” will explore:
* What other theories are out there?
* Who’s on the frontlines of this debate?
* Should your child’s curriculum really be decided by experts in their respective fields?

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May or May Not Refer to God

Via Leiter Reports, we find Mark Fiore’s Superintelligent Design. Which might make you happy. This story, found via Chris Mooney, however, will quickly destroy any good mood the previous cartoon may have induced. So I recommend reading the cartoon again and leaving it at that.

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The Incompleteness of Gravity

A new gravity theory, Intelligent Falling. Gotta love the Onion:

What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that ‘gravity waves’ and ‘gravitons’ are just secular words for ‘God can do whatever He wants.’

Does this mean that LIGO can get faith-based funding now?

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A Serious Version

A resubmission, quant-ph/0507189. Much, much, more serious:

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Authors: S.J. van Enk
Comments: A more serious version, almost 2.36 pages, but still an unnormalized title
Note: replaced with revised version Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:17:52 GMT (6kb)

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I'm a Cult/Occult

Pharyngula points to a site where you can enter your url and get your censorship category. According to this authority:

The URL
https://dabacon.org/pontiff
is currently rated as:
Category 7 – Cult/Occult

The real question, of course, is which am I? A cult or occult?