Nerd Fun: xkcd on Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

Ever wonder what would happen if Isaac Asimov had arranged the laws differently?  Wonder no more, darlings!

The fact that fully half of the configurations ends in a killbot hellscape does rather give one pause, doesn't it?
...

(Sooooo, do we need those laws?)

Happy Pi Day!

Bake accordingly, darlings.

Awesome: Rube Goldberg's Passover Seder

Nerd Fun: Scientists Sneaking Bob Dylan Lyrics Into Publications

It ain't me, babe. It's a bunch of Swedish scientists.

Art, Life, and Cosplay

Hanging out with the people whom you're cosplaying is pretty darn awesome. Nathan Fillion meeting mini-Captain Reynolds is too cute.

Nerd Notes: An Interview With the Cartoonist of PhD Comics

Poking fun at grad school is a fantastic defense mechanism.

Nerd LOL: Clickbait Dissertations

What if dissertations were titled like Buzzfeed articles?

Nerd Fun: Decorated Mortarboards for Graduation

Here are 31 examples of sass, creativity, and humor from the Class of 2014.  The LEGO one is my favorite!

Happy Mother's Day From a Biologist

Friday Fun Videos: Thug Notes

This is some kind of brilliant.  The video series covers a gloriously wide array of famous literary works from Shakespeare to Orwell.  Here's the Thug Notes take on The Hobbit.  Don't be fooled by the fun of it all; the analyses are often very insightful indeed.

Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fungus ... Er, FONDER

Sorry I've been away, darlings!  Life, you know.  School.  Work.  Responsibilities and such, plus trying to freeze to death here (where new snow falls even as I type)!  I'll try to be back more often with the usual supply of frivolous sundries and occasional lapses into serious looks at foreign policy ... but mostly frivolous sundries because our foreign policy is pretty much too horrible to contemplate.

Nerd Fun: A Bored College President During Christmas Break

Via the Tax Prof Blog comes this delightful video.  Since it is Christmas Break and all the students (and faculty) are away, the president of Truman State University in Missouri is bored out of his wits and trying (hilariously) to amuse himself:

Nerd Fun: Hilariously Reductive Theses

The brilliant blog Lol My Thesis invites nerds to submit humorous summaries of their research projects, theses, and dissertations.  My current top 3 favorites:

3) "Screw you. Love, the Polish language" - linguistics thesis from Cornell

2) "Rats like cocaine" - a psychology thesis from Reed College

And a drum roll for the best of them all ...

1)  "Why is the Security Council dysfunctional? Because the Russians are devious liars" - a political science thesis from the University of Pennsylvania

Nerd Fun: CERN, Legos, and Google Streetview

Kudos.

Nerd Fun: One Professor's Hilarious Announcement

Via Imgur.

Seasonal Nerd Fun: Pumpkin Catapults

Look what the folks at the Illinois Institute of Technology are up to!

History Nerd Fun: If You Could Mess With History ...

If you had a time machine and could go back in history to rescue someone, whom would you save?   Pericles?  Julius Caesar?  Lincoln?  Gandhi?

Art History Nerd Fun: Identifying the Artist

This is hilarious.  The last one made me laugh out loud.

Nerd Fun: Odd College Mascots

Friday Fun Video: Welcoming the Freshmen to Georgia Tech

The entire speech by sophomore Nick Selby is here, but this is the absolute highlight:

 

"You're at Georgia Tech!  You can do that!"

PS: Don't miss the Nerd Lord sitting in the top right corner.  Watch him crack up.