Somewhere along the line, science got funny. PhD comics are pinned to noticeboards and Facebook has groups dedicated to those who spend too long in the lab. Or, at least, it found some funny friends. Robin Ince co-presents a humorous Radio 4 show with Brian Cox, Josie Long's set includes gags about A-level maths and, as the Wellcome Trust blog points out, science had a noticeable presence at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. And, no, science isn't simply the butt of the jokes.
A physicist, a chemist and a zoologist walk into a bar …
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An engineer is working at his desk in his office. His cigarette falls off the desk into the wastebasket, causing the papers within to burst into flames. The engineer looks around, sees a fire extinguisher, grabs it, puts out the flames, and goes back to work. A physicist is working at his desk in another office and the same thing happens. He looks at the fire, looks at the fire extinguisher, and thinks "Fire requires fuel plus oxygen plus heat. The fire extinguisher will remove both the oxygen and the heat in the wastebasket.
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But we all need to unwind, and sometimes nothing feels better than the rush endorphins from laughing at a good joke. Laughter comes with some surprising and impressive health benefits too. Examples include materials such as DNA your genetic code , nylon, polyethylene terephthalate or PETE, used in plastic bottles , pectin in fruit , wool, cellulose in wood , and silk. They get together they spell OK. Explanation: In chemistry, an alloy is a mixture of metals.