Do Scientists Have a Sense of Humor? - Brian Malow

[ILoveSk8brdng]

@wspol624 That was my first thought as well..

[619Joe182]

i react that way to jokes!!

[TheBiAtheist]

The Vatican Meteorite Collection.

Or as they call it, 'Look what God gave us'.

[Madman1234855]

120 is Fucking cold.

[PSaunMusic]

@Madman1234855

Yes

[bulletproofscales]

This guy is wonderful, also, Arizona is excellent.<3

[zaroffhound]

Answer: yes, they do have a sense of humour. Doc Savage for instance. and go flick over to the Richard Dawkins comments, they're really a barrel of laughs. seriously.

[andysim232]

Pluto will always be a Planet to me even if its not. I grew up with 9 Planets not 8.

[Nydracommander]

@andysim232 the great thing of science is that you can adept and change your views and beliefs to fit the evidence and not the other way around.

[coldcapsicum]

@Nydracommander Exactly why Pluto had to be downgraded... it doesn't pass the test of having cleared most of the other similar-sized objects from its orbit (in fact, there is a bigger object, Eris, in Pluto's domain). Although we liked Pluto, we have to apply the rules even-handedly :(

[Serpico261]

@Nydracommander really, its like watching a sports game and choosing the winning team. Everybody wins

[bradwolf07]

I was sad for Pluto

[TheGrinningSkull]

hahaha XD, "The joke is sound, thank you very much" XD

[gulbirk]

hihi, good  one.

[JohnF30Music]

lol funny guy

[thowll6]

your not a nerd if you can watch this and not understand a single joke

[casusbelli15]

A Vatican Astronomer? isn't that an oxymoron?

[Hopefulfilment]

Do scientists have humor?

1.Define humor.

2.Define scientist.

3.Set a null hypothesis.

4.Calculate the population of scientists.

5.Calculate proper sample size.

6.Make a random selection of scientists.

7.Set up a reproducible test environment.

8.Complete test and calculate p-value.

9.If null hypothesis is rejected: voilà! Scientists HAVE humor!

[DragonSporks]

Just when I thought there couldn't possibly be another reason to dislike the Vatican, I find out they had a hand in demoting Pluto.

[Hopefulfilment]

@DragonSporks Its just the first step of demoting all the planets to "wandering stars" and put earth in the center of the universe again..

[AngelsInAbsentia]

An atom says to another atom: "I think I lost an electron."

The second atom says: "Are you sure?"

In which the first atom replies: "Yes, I'm positive!"

[wonkerjk]

@AngelsInAbsentia HAHAH!! i saw that in my science book lol

[hog660]

Holy cow, it's Professor John Frink!

[certainkill94]

Do scientists have a sense of humour?

What are the variables?

[SierraPapaFoxtrot]

"What do you have against Pluto?"

"I'm Upper Management."

[SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

This guys standup is very joyful and enjoyable.

[marcusaureliooze]

>Do scientists have a sense of humour?

It depends.

[broadcastmyass4u]

i get it, he's supposed to be a chip monk

[ToshiroDK]

I don't want to be in a Plutonic relationship :D

[AmericanSoapBox]

They believe in a completely whacked "THEORY" of evolution. They must.

[fabsIsWatching]

@AmericanSoapBox ur a wack job if u dont believe in the theory of evolution

[Horathgar42]

@AmericanSoapBox Gravity is also a "theory". I'm not going to denigrate your world view. That being said, I'll go with the evidence, if it turns out the evidence turns against evolution i'll go that way. Until then, i'll go with what is repeatable, and predictable. IE Evolution.

[pjfrog10]

Until science can figure out how the physical reality came to be out of nothingness, the Bible will stand the test of time as to it's claim about the creation. If you ask, well where did God come from you are asking a flawed question. We are asking where the physical came from in the beginning. God is not physical, but Spirit and not subject to physical laws. If you say the Big Bang, what caused it to blow up and that in itself shows that there was a "IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED".

[Ivin3690]

@pjfrog10 wtf? this is not even the place to ramble that stuff...they're talkin comedy yo! oh n if u wanna check it out, type up mysteries of space and see how big bang went off. its proposed that a type of particle in vacuum started amassing energy ubiquitously and simultaneously. space-time plane literally inflated, causing a cosmic inflation. it is not easy to understand, but it is said that we are a product of the interaction of several dimension that have nothing to do with our 3D reality

[shnosmas]

@pjfrog10 what created god in this scenario?

[TheMan21892]

...how didn't anyone get this? this bit here hardly involved any deeper thinking to understand at all. :P

[orbweb13]

so funny i want to stab my ears.

[cunnidvd]

apparently not

[iambehindthemirror]

What's the speed of light joke?

[CalyxAsgard]

You gotta remember that this comedian is aimming to appeal to an intellectual audience, the average joe on the street is not likely to get it. No Lowest Common Denominator here.

[TerrorWatcher]

Dammit

I don't get jack shit

[floppaboppa]

I guess all you need to know is that it's f*ing funny :D

[sciencecomedian]

I don't think you're the first.

[sopka1985]

how would u know? :)

[terminaldeity]

My neuroscience professor is hilarious.

[sopka1985]

ha ha, lucky you

[Ariesbasketball]

i did not laugh until the last part. i like how he explain people are thinking over the jokes.

[BiteHunter]

Of course scientists have a sense of humor. For example, scientists have to write in passive voice in order to create the illusion of truth, like... Pluto. Oh, yeah. Scientists are full of sh.......humour. Muahahaha.

[hyperseauton]

oh dear.

Doug Zongker is a much funnier science comedian.

Yoram Bauman is excellent in the field of economics.

Also Jorge Cham, the creator of phdcomics is in another league than this guy.

[leetag]

They left out the end few jokes out.

A Higgs Boson walks into a church and the priest says "you can't be in here". The Higg Boson says "but without me how will you have mass?"

[NationOfJames]

@leetag Whats the difference between God and the God Particle.

There is actual evidence backing the god particle's existence!

[HaydenPK]

@NationOfJames ba dum dum tsss...

[MoltenPlastic]

I think that the scientist groaning "nooo..." can be considered the nerdy equivalent of a heckler

[jimbobeire]

That's funny stuff. If people didn't know scientists could be funny, they obviously never heard Feynman! I like what you've done with it. I think every industry has it's own humor, even coal miners must have in-jokes that the rest of us wouldn't think of.

[dmnxCGi]

yeah, solid material, solid delivery

[vrtgarden]

awesome. its a solid comedy with no obvious faults. LOL. Brian you are the best.

[ProtagonistNonTheist]

This guy is creepy as hell. He reminds me of a rat.

[xXMusicxLuvaxMisaXx]

EPIC WIN!

[screwopenborders]

Too bad the emails that got hacked aren't humor. Plain truth is global warming as a man made issue is a farce.

[Aaberg123]

Hehe. Have you seen the e-mails in context of the issue they were debating? Kinda takes all the fuss out of the "it's a scam, here's the proof" that's been going on.

[screwopenborders]

Well even without the emails, its pretty obvious that you can't prove that man is the cause. of course we all warm the earth a bit but the earth compensates. to try and tax people on the basis that we are the cause is a conflict of interest. but I admit I don't know all about the taxing but it seems like greed to me.

[screwopenborders]

do you have a link to the emails?

[Aaberg123]

I'm sure Wikileaks or similar has them lying around.

For some explanatory context, go to skepticalscience (a website).

For info here on a YT, greenman3610 has an interesting series on the subject.

[realisoph]

"Hehe. Have you seen the emails in context..."

Can it be that it is actually you who is being ignorant? If you're unable to realize a fraud when it happens right in front of your eyes... well, then you just beg to be screwed.

Before making any such superficial replies, how about you go and study those emails? ...to get your brain set back to normal!

or possibly watch: bit . ly/6UwsL

But I guess that wouldn't help you either, wouldn't?

[Sardonac]

ahahahahahaha

[merdufer]

My science jokes didn't end up passing the peer review. People laughed, but it turned out those were Type I laughters.

[sciencecomedian]

That's funny. At a recent conference, I joked about doing peer-reviewed comedy - and the difficulty of seeking validation in mouse models.

[zayadnay]

i believe that scientists have a need to be funny or to be seen as funny . it doesn't matter whether you specifically think it is funny as long as their fellow scientists do lol

[martincrotty]

he's brilliant.

i also had to say something to stop those ''FIRST'' idiots

[martincrotty]

except now it's not valid.

first is posted by the first commenter.

it's not about the first person to say first.

[notToast]

your mother is not valid

[martincrotty]

but the she wouldn't be able to be my mother therefore i wouldn't exist.

your argument is invalid.

[notToast]

Thank you screwopenborders; following your youtube reply telling me to get a life I decided to apply for a job and sign up on a dating site to find a girlfriend and make a family.

Oh no, wait, I didn't. I appreciate you wanting me to have a life though. But really it's a lot cooler to dwell the intrawebs 24/7

[kid29a]

@notToast hahah lol :)

Intense humorous talk. I like it.

[screwopenborders]

except I don't think you were first :D get a life scumbag!

[AgentAlmost]

No, resistance is the ratio of the potential to the current