<p>Discover about 130 papers showing attempts at whimsy, humour, or conveying various human emotions that we hardly encounter in scientific literature (e.g., surprise, irony, anger, despise). These amusing papers were published in virtually all fields of science. As Kohn (1982) put it: Humour is the interdisciplinary denominator of science.</p> <p>This paper is dedicated to Professor James Hartley in honour of his 75th birthday.</p
Chemical journals are serious things. However, occasionally the humour of chemistry breaks through a...
The paper analyses the comic’s role in science. The author associates the comic as well as tragedy w...
Comedy writers use their practice to raise questions and create awareness about social, political an...
his 75th birthday by assembling this paper for his amusement. • Aims: A selection of scientific pape...
The public perception of science and its practitioners is one of stoic seriousness or of laughable a...
Aims and Scope Humor research draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines including anthropolog...
Humour and laughter have been regarded as suitable topics for research in the social sciences, but a...
In a previous article, I analyzed two 'in-house' journals produced by the Department of Biochemistry...
Science is generally seen as a serious subject, yet scientific discoveries may sometimes have humoro...
First paragraph: Despite what some people might think, academics are not all humourless boffins out ...
While scientists are often exhorted to write better, it isn’t entirely obvious what “better” means. ...
In this paper, the authors summarize the main theories of humor that emerged from philosophical and ...
Eighteenth and nineteenth century philosophers took interest in humour and, in particular, humorous ...
While scientists are often exhorted to write better, it isn’t entirely obvious what “better ” means....
Chemical journals are serious things. However, occasionally the humour of chemistry breaks through a...
Chemical journals are serious things. However, occasionally the humour of chemistry breaks through a...
The paper analyses the comic’s role in science. The author associates the comic as well as tragedy w...
Comedy writers use their practice to raise questions and create awareness about social, political an...
his 75th birthday by assembling this paper for his amusement. • Aims: A selection of scientific pape...
The public perception of science and its practitioners is one of stoic seriousness or of laughable a...
Aims and Scope Humor research draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines including anthropolog...
Humour and laughter have been regarded as suitable topics for research in the social sciences, but a...
In a previous article, I analyzed two 'in-house' journals produced by the Department of Biochemistry...
Science is generally seen as a serious subject, yet scientific discoveries may sometimes have humoro...
First paragraph: Despite what some people might think, academics are not all humourless boffins out ...
While scientists are often exhorted to write better, it isn’t entirely obvious what “better” means. ...
In this paper, the authors summarize the main theories of humor that emerged from philosophical and ...
Eighteenth and nineteenth century philosophers took interest in humour and, in particular, humorous ...
While scientists are often exhorted to write better, it isn’t entirely obvious what “better ” means....
Chemical journals are serious things. However, occasionally the humour of chemistry breaks through a...
Chemical journals are serious things. However, occasionally the humour of chemistry breaks through a...
The paper analyses the comic’s role in science. The author associates the comic as well as tragedy w...
Comedy writers use their practice to raise questions and create awareness about social, political an...
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