- Ask Dr. Science - http://www.drscience.com
America's foremost authoritarian on the world around us. Or at least the world around him.
- HotAIR: Annals of Improbable Research - http://www.improb.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.
- The Straight Dope by Cecil Adams - http://www.straightdope.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.
- Science Jokes (Joachim Verhagen's site) - http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/
Collection of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology and university humor. It also includes humorous quotes, rhymes, mnemonics and anecdotes about scientists
- Scientific Quotes Gathered on the Net - http://sung3.ifsi.rm.cnr.it/~dargaud/Humor/QuotesScience.html
Miscellaneous quotes, including: what in the world is electricity, and where does it go after it leaves the toaster?
- Bad Science Projects - http://www.badscienceprojects.com/
The scientific method gone terribly, terribly wrong. Scientists with too much time on their hands.
- Science and Math Jokes - http://members.aol.com/WES425/index.html
A weird and wacky place filled with links to all sorts of science jokes.
- The Magic of A.I. - http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/silverberg/484
Entertaining tidbits from the realm of Artificial Intelligence.
- CooperToons - http://members.aol.com/ChipCooper/science.html
Science cartoons indexed by category: physics, chemistry, life sciences, medicine, and computers.
- Eric Schulman's Science Humor - http://members.verizon.net/~vze3fs8i/air/index.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.
- Flaxon Alternative Interface Technologies - http://www.sonic.net/~dfx/fait/
Home and underground research and development facility of the Evil Doctor Flaxon, located in the heart of the Nevada nuclear test site.
- Butseriously.com - http://www.butseriously.com
Comic Brian Malow hosts a live daily webcast featuring interviews with scientists, authors, techies, artists, musicians and others.
- Science Humor Webring - http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scihum/webring.html
This ring is intended to join websites with humor about science and scientists, so that you can wander forever along the science humor sites.
- The Deirdre Project - http://physics.webplasma.com/d_project/
An investigation into a spatial and temporal anomaly, a dish which refuses to clean itself.
- South Pacific Institute of Nolledge - http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~epidote/Company/institute.html
Te Ngstitute Pikamanaga O Pasifika. A satirical look at modern corporate research institutes: nolledge, boffins, sustainable managers, ambush marketing, and electron retrospectroscopy.
- The Dark Sucker Theory - http://www.netcom.com/~rogermw/darksucker.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.
- ScientificGospel.com - http://www.scientificgospel.com
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.
- Bob Meyer's Premier Web Pages - http://www.geocities.com/bobmeyer99
Americans for Cloning Elvis (ACE), Americans for Cloning Dead Celebrities (ACDC), Bob Meyer's Compendium of Elvis Sightings.
- OmniResearch, Inc. - http://igoresha.virtualave.net/OmniResearch/
The Journal of Omniresearch Online publishes original humorous research articles in a broad range of scientific topics. [Contains fictitious information.]
- Science Maniac - http://members.fortunecity.com/alberteinstein
Miscellaneous jokes and trivia about astronomy, Einstein, animals, and plants.
- Sometimes Science Sucks - http://sss.keenspace.com/
Webcomic about science and the situations that occur when it all goes wrong.
- Good Science Jokes - http://www.jupiterscientific.org/sciinfo/sciencejokes.html
Scientific humor, jokes, and cartoons organized by topic.
- IG Nobel Prize - http://www.popular-science.net/nobel/ignobel.html
Awarded every year at Harvard University for "achievements that cannot or should not be reproduced."
- The Underwater Mouse Project - http://www.underwatermouse.com
Documents an underwater mouse. Plenty of pictures and illustrations are included.
- Strange But Untrue Science - http://strangebutuntrue.tripod.com/science/main.htm
Explore the three key areas of Science (Phydlstics, Pharmacy and Squidgy Things) with a mad scientist.
- Yes, It's Patented - http://www.archvillain.com/pats.html
List of strange inventions which have actually been patented.
- Why Is The Sky Blue - http://www.why-is-the-sky-blue.tv/
Features funny scientific misinformation and silliness.
- Reality Carnival - http://www.pickover.com/realitycarnival.html
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.
- Fun Science - http://www.angelfire.com/weird2/dudeland/
A small collection of rather pointless experiments.
- Society for Scientific Exploitation - http://members.tripod.com/~ssehome/
Promoting the belief in exotic, aberrant, or supernatural explanations for ostensibly anomalous or paranormal phenomena.
- Casebook of the Queer and Strange - http://uk.geocities.com/a_c_darke/
A non too serious study of the UFO, crop circle, supernatural phenomena and a look at the so-called Apollo moon landing hoax.
- Stop the Spin - http://stopthespin.org/
Satiral organization dedicated to stopping global warming by stopping the spin of the earth.
- Science Jokes - http://www.sciencejokes.com/
Jokes about the sciences and mathematics arranged by topic.
- This Week In Science - http://www.twis.org
Web site and online audio archives for the weekly TWIS science radio show. A humorous and irreverent take on the world of science.
- Intellectual Hair - http://phill.unimelbpss.org/
Humanising scientific discovery and achievement by way of light hearted and somewhat scientific entertainment.
- The Sciencist - http://www.thesciencist.org
A satirical journal of science featuring groundbreaking research, experiments and reports.
- Causal or Casual? - http://home.att.net/~jackrussells/strep.html
The relationship between strep throat and Italian restaurant food.
- Science Humor - http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/~amyb/science_humor.html
Quotes from 11-year-olds' science exams, and what NOT to do/say at your Ph.D Defense.
- Blunders and Mistakes of Science - http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/whoops.htm
A compilation of mistakes which are the result of misapplication or ignorance of science and engineering principles.
- Tetrahedron - http://www.tetrahedron.btinternet.co.uk/
Science-related fiction, journal and images.
- Metric Conversion Chart - http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Humor/Funny-Metric-Chart.html
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.
- Frodsham Amateur Ghost Society - http://www.limpfish.com/ghostsoc/
Off-Beat look at Paranormal Investigation focusing on alleged apparitions of dead celebrities in the Frodsham area.
- The Final Front Ear - http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/thefinalfrontear/
Ramlings on SETI-related topics.
- Solar Death Ray - http://www.solardeathray.com/
Using the power of 112 suns to burn, melt, and destroy things.
- B.S.L Labs - http://www.bsl-labs.com
Inventors of funny, strange, and unusual items including the Universal Llama Translator and Polytetrafluoroethylene Coated Underwear.
- W&B Scientific Articles - http://wbsci.org/
Nonsensical but fleetingly plausible articles on a variety of scientific disciplines
- Scientific AmeriKen - http://www.scientificameriken.com/
Delves into many scientific disciplines to come up with some unusual insights and experiments.
- The Journal of Irreproducible Results - http://www.jir.com/
Bimonthly science humor magazine published since 1955. Site includes sample articles, subscription and contact information, and the magazine's history.
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