Science is Easy, Comedy’s Hard


Sometimes you can tell when it’s a slow news day. Newspapers start digging up stories about things like a sudden upswing in comedy routines involving science.

“Physics can be hard for comedy,” he admits, “but biology is hilarious. It’s easier to make a joke about the sex lives of bonobo chimpanzees than it is to do a mime representing wave-particle duality.”

They’ve obviously never heard the one about the traveling wavicle and the physicist’s daughter.

Link (via Skepchick)