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.<\/p>\n
“Physics can be hard for comedy,\u201d he admits, \u201cbut biology is hilarious. It\u2019s easier to make a joke about the sex lives of bonobo chimpanzees than it is to do a mime representing wave-particle duality.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They’ve obviously never heard the one about the traveling wavicle and the physicist’s daughter.<\/p>\n
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