1. worldsfair
  2. Friday List Bonanza: Science, Engineering, and Dr. Phil

Friday List Bonanza: Science, Engineering, and Dr. Phil

By bcohen on July 28, 2006.

How about a sampling of the lists over at McSweeney's, the perfect Friday activity. Here are a bunch that are either science-related, engineering-related, invention-related, or plain unrelated.

I'd be interested in any kind of ranking people have, the bests of the links, that is.

We'll do these in reverse chronological order...

Failed NASA Sapce Programs, by Jonathan Shipley

Hoover Dam Fast-Fact Pamphlet If Hoover Dam Were a Scale Model Made of Legos, by Orr Goehring

Dr. Phil's Inventions, by Scott Smith

Unpublished Sequels to Famous Science-Fiction Novels, by Steve Rushmore

Terrifying Bioengineered Animal-Snack Hybrids Not Mentioned as Potential Threats During the State of the Union Address, by Matthew Brehm and Brian Leatherman

Chapter Titles From My Creationist Textbook (this is Dave's list, which we've linked to before, because it's good)

Ways in Which She Could Have Blinded Me With Science, by Jules Lipoff

Things I'd Probably Say If the Bush Administration Were Just a Weekly TV Show and I Were a Regular Viewer, by Eric Maierson

Moons That Orbit Distant Planets or Female Birth Control Brand Names?, by Danny Gallagher

Papers appearing in Science Magazine's "Reflections of Self" Issue, by Jennifer Frazier

Tags
Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
The Website Building

More like this

Procastination Science Reading (July 8/2006)
This time around, we have a poem, something about lego, a great piece by the ever interesting Kurt Vonnegut, and a conversation with an academic that sort of defies categorization . Not ranked in that order, in any particular order really. Just good for a few minutes of your life of science. The…
"Signs Your Unicorn Is Cheating On You" -- a whole book of lists
A smashing product plug -- this is Mountain Man Dance Moves, the McSweeney's Book of Lists. "SIGNS YOUR UNICORN IS CHEATING ON YOU" and "THINGS KOALA BEARS WOULD SAY" below the fold. (By the way, bad news on a prior product plug., Encyclopedia Brown..., as it's been pulled from the shelves, or…
Science Fiction for Undergraduates
For my class, one f the things I asked is what I should tell them about which I did not do. Somewhat to my surprise, one question, endorsed by a number of other students, was whether I could recommend some good science fiction to read over the holidays. Why, yes, yes I can... Ok, we'll jst let rip…
Speaking of Mr. Vonnegut...
So I'm in the midst of trying to write a book, with a genetics theme and all. And so far, things look pretty good. I'm having fun anyway. But this is not what this post is about. This post is actually about a previous attempt to write a book, which was tentatively entitled "Towards Hannah: an…