I tell you, this stuff is comedy gold. Zach Weiner is going to get rich and famous by pandering to the sensibilities of evolutionary biologists everywhere.
That’s so much better than his frequent descent into jokes about math or graphs.
Panadaptationist funnies!
NO, IT IS NOT!
YES IT IS. Biology is intrinsically funnier than all other scientific disciplines.
Proof: fart jokes and sex jokes. That’s biology, not math.
The mathematician here smells proof by testosterone…
Them who smelled it, dealt it.
My better proofs are done by running around vocalizing like a agitated chimp preparing to throw shite. This is one of the lessor forms of Proof by Biology.
Xe who said the rhyme did the crime.
I’m not usually susceptible to cartoon humor, but this I like.
My comment disappeared. I know it was inconsequential but still, I’m hurt.
Testicles thermoregulate???
Looks like internet is sorry for hurting my feelings, so I’ll have another stab at this:
I think I originally surfed here from SMBC. Or it could be the other way round, I lose track of these things.
I sincerely hope that people know there’s always an additional panel when you mouse over the red dot under the cartoon.
Sperm survive and are active at slightly less than body temperature. The scrotum can ‘bunch up’ or ‘relax’ (if a sciency-type can help me with the proper sciency words there, I’d appreciate it) to keep the testicles at (or close to) the proper temperature. If they are hot, they hang down further to increase surface cooling area and if they are cold, they bunch up (at the risk of TMI, have you never taken a cold shower and wondered what happened to your balls?).
This has been you daily dose of “Historian answering a sciency question.”
But fart jokes are funniest to juveniles. Math jokes are for adults.
Sticking them in ice or hot coals will cause most owners of same to jump back/out immediately…
blf:
That was cringeworthy.
How is the penguin, by the way?
@blf: You must throw interesting parties.
Aren’t fart jokes just a type of math jokes about empty and not-so-empty sets?
And sex jokes math jokes about binary code.
Sigh, vocal CORDS. Because they are cord-shaped. Chords are what you play on musical instruments, dangit.
Don’t miss clicking the little red dot below the main comic.
But vocal CHORDS do actually exist. Maybe the character in the cartoon does all her sarcasm in Gregorian Chants.
Gregorian chant is monophonic.
SMBC is usually funny, and they are again this time.
Are Butt jokes Biology?
DLC #22
Fundamentally, yes.
I am so happy we can all get together and argue about cords v chords… in a chord. Accord. A cord. Whichever.
By the way, the bonus roll-over to this comic is the woman saying
“Now lie down and think of boobs so I can see if we’re late for the opera.”
I have to remember that the next time I forget my watch at home. As long as it’s a sunny day, of course.
Ok, TWO Gregorian chants!
No, that’s just polyphonic.
Damnit.
Barbershop quartets!
But one person can’t do that. How about throat-singing? It would add a certain je ne sais quoi to the sarcasm.
Math joke: What’s purple and commutes?
An Abelian grape
See here if you need an explanation.
Aleph null bottles of beer on the wall
Aleph null bottles of beer
Take one down, pass it around
Aleph null bottles of beer on the wall
Nope. Cold, by definition, is too cold. Likewise, I’ve never taken a hot shower, because hot, by definition, is too hot. I only take carefully tempered tepid showers. You see, my, uh, testicles are actually less temperature-sensitive than large areas of the rest of me (almost ruining comment 13 in the process… almost).
I’ve noticed what you mean; but I’d never noticed the connection, and I wouldn’t have thought that that was sufficient to thermoregulate.