Word: humority
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...worthy aims of the new round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the six-day talks to launch them last week in Doha were grueling and acrimonious. The meeting in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous political grandstanding and foul humor. And although bleary-eyed ministers and officials claimed the new trade agenda more or less pleased everyone, they also showed that getting 142 nations to agree on anything is like building a house of cards on the back of a galloping camel...
Comedy by and for physics students? Yes, the comic fare of the show often betrayed the major hallmark of true physics humor: the use of obscure references in jokes that are only funny to those with personalities such that they would consider spending hundreds of hours learning about such obscurities. But a few pieces of truly context-free comic brilliance managed to shine through. The first was a running comparison of professors’ ratings on HotOrNot.com, and another was a rip-off of Saturday Night Lives’s “Celebrity Jeopardy” with well-known...
...humor is so carefree. In fact, every year I attend I am always surprised at the no-holds-barred nature of the satire. Students always take advantage of the opportunity to produce biting caricatures, condemning the professor who belittles students’ questions as “trivial,” or doesn’t cover material on problem sets until weeks after the sets are due or doesn’t really know the material at all. Crucially, the skits also provide an outlet for criticism of students’ treatment in research labs. For example, the most...
...This assessment could not be more accurate. In no rational sense is it artistically profound or flawlessly executed. The song and dance, so critical to the success of an ordinary musical, certainly leave much to be desired. Still, the audience gives in to the waves of self-effacing humor and the contagious energy of the cast. By the night’s end, they are more than willing to join in the spontaneous gaiety of the spectacle. And perhaps that is just the point. Perhaps an evening of irrationality and exuberance is necessary in order to recapture, if mockingly...
...penned a Letters to a Young Lawyer) Hitchens dispenses advice on how to batter away at the prevailing hypocrisies of our day by living in a state—or rather, an activity—of principled opposition. Luckily, Hitchens has at least enough of a sense of humor to appreciate the condescending silliness that encircles this idea. “I myself hope to live long enough to graduate, from being a ‘bad boy’—which I once was—to becoming ‘a curmudgeon...