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America's foremost authoritarian on the world around us. Or at least the world around him.
http://www.drscience.com
International science humor magazine chronicles genuine and concocted research from Earth's best and worst scientists and science writers, and administers the annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. Many articles online not in the print version, and vice versa.
http://www.improb.com/
"Education and Condescension" - Fighting ignorance since 1973, Cecil Adams takes questions from the teeming millions, spewing forth correctness week after week in his replies.
http://www.straightdope.com/
Collection of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and university humor. It also includes humorous quotes, rhymes, mnemonics and anecdotes about scientists
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/
Miscellaneous quotes, including: what in the world is electricity, and where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
http://sung3.ifsi.rm.cnr.it/~dargaud/Humor/QuotesScience.html
Imagine a cross between economics and thermodynamics...
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/1003/
Statements taken from the work of middle school students.
http://www.middleweb.com/MShumor.html
The scientific method gone terribly, terribly wrong. Scientists with too much time on their hands.
http://www.badscienceprojects.com/
Entertaining tidbits from the realm of Artificial Intelligence.
http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/silverberg/484
Science cartoons indexed by category: physics, chemistry, life sciences, medicine, and computers.
http://members.aol.com/ChipCooper/science.html
Includes "How to Write a Scientific Paper," "The History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less," and other articles and essays, most published in The Annals of Improbable Research.
http://members.verizon.net/~vze3fs8i/air/index.html
Home and underground research and development facility of the Evil Doctor Flaxon, located in the heart of the Nevada nuclear test site.
http://www.sonic.net/~dfx/fait/
Comic Brian Malow hosts a live daily webcast featuring interviews with scientists, authors, techies, artists, musicians and others.
http://www.butseriously.com
This ring is intended to join websites with humor about science and scientists, so that you can wander forever along the science humor sites.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scihum/webring.html
Home of Lynda Williams, the Physics Chanteuse.
http://www.entersci.com/
An investigation into a spatial and temporal anomaly, a dish which refuses to clean itself.
http://physics.webplasma.com/d_project/
Te Ngstitute Pikamanaga O Pasifika. A satirical look at modern corporate research institutes: nolledge, boffins, sustainable managers, ambush marketing, and electron retrospectroscopy.
http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~epidote/Company/institute.html
Dedicated to those hardy, brave souls who know the deeper truth and aren't ashamed to admit it: that so-called "light sources" are really dark suckers.
http://www.netcom.com/~rogermw/darksucker.html
Prompted by a letter from Dr. Eugenie Scott in Science News noting that the creationists have all the good songs, Dr. Stephen Baird decided to address the long neglected problem of scientific gospel. Includes music, quotes, and merchandise.
http://www.scientificgospel.com
Americans for Cloning Elvis (ACE), Americans for Cloning Dead Celebrities (ACDC), Bob Meyer's Compendium of Elvis Sightings.
http://www.geocities.com/bobmeyer99
The Journal of Omniresearch Online publishes original humorous research articles in a broad range of scientific topics. [Contains fictitious information.]
http://igoresha.virtualave.net/OmniResearch/
Miscellaneous jokes and trivia about astronomy, Einstein, animals, and plants.
http://members.fortunecity.com/alberteinstein
Webcomic about science and the situations that occur when it all goes wrong.
http://sss.keenspace.com/
Scientific humor, jokes, and cartoons organized by topic.
http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/sciencejokes.html
Awarded every year at Harvard University for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced."
http://www.popular-science.net/nobel/ignobel.html
A collection of odd, Frankenstein-like images and peculiar essays.
http://www.xenolite.org/
Documents an underwater mouse. Plenty of pictures and illustrations are included.
http://www.underwatermouse.com
Explore the three key areas of Science (Phydlstics, Pharmacy and Squidgy Things) with a mad scientist.
http://strangebutuntrue.tripod.com/science/main.htm
List of strange inventions which have actually been patented.
http://www.archvillain.com/pats.html
Features funny scientific misinformation and silliness.
http://www.why-is-the-sky-blue.tv/
A news site that explores the edges of science: altered realities, near-death experiences, unsolved mysteries, exotic sushi, parallel universes, religion & science, weird & fun, sex, beauty & brains, fantastic memes. Edited by science writer Dr. Cliff Pickover.
http://www.pickover.com/realitycarnival.html
A small collection of rather pointless experiments.
http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/dudeland/
Promoting the belief in exotic, aberrant, or supernatural explanations for ostensibly anomalous or paranormal phenomena.
http://members.tripod.com/~ssehome/
A non too serious study of the UFO, crop circle, supernatural phenomena and a look at the so-called Apollo moon landing hoax.
http://uk.geocities.com/a_c_darke/
Satiral organization dedicated to stopping global warming by stopping the spin of the earth.
http://stopthespin.org/
Jokes about the sciences and mathematics arranged by topic.
http://www.sciencejokes.com/
Web site and online audio archives for the weekly TWIS science radio show. A humorous and irreverent take on the world of science.
http://www.twis.org
Humanising scientific discovery and achievement by way of light hearted and somewhat scientific entertainment.
http://phill.unimelbpss.org/
A satirical journal of science featuring groundbreaking research, experiments and reports.
http://www.thesciencist.org
The relationship between strep throat and Italian restaurant food.
http://home.att.net/~jackrussells/strep.html
Quotes from 11-year-olds' science exams, and what NOT to do/say at your Ph.D Defense.
http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~amyb/science_humor.html
A compilation of mistakes which are the result of misapplication or ignorance of science and engineering principles.
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/whoops.htm
Science-related fiction, journal and images.
http://www.tetrahedron.btinternet.co.uk/
For those of us who hate conversion problems (and who doesn't?), here are some conversion factors that are much more enjoyable than what we usually see in the back of the textbook.
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webd...cs/Humor/Funny-Metric-Chart.html
Off-Beat look at Paranormal Investigation focusing on alleged apparitions of dead celebrities in the Frodsham area.
http://www.limpfish.com/ghostsoc/
Ramlings on SETI-related topics.
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thefinalfrontear/
Using the power of 112 suns to burn, melt, and destroy things.
http://www.solardeathray.com/
Inventors of funny, strange, and unusual items including the Universal Llama Translator and Polytetrafluoroethylene Coated Underwear.
http://www.bsl-labs.com
Nonsensical but fleetingly plausible articles on a variety of scientific disciplines
http://wbsci.org/
Delves into many scientific disciplines to come up with some unusual insights and experiments.
http://www.scientificameriken.com/
Bimonthly science humor magazine published since 1955. Site includes sample articles, subscription and contact information, and the magazine's history.
http://www.jir.com/
The official blog of the Ig Nobel Prizes and of the Annals of Improbable Research (AIR).
http://improbable.typepad.com/