Comic 1046 - Skynet

There once was a nightmare dystopia
Where conditions could not have been ropier.
The machines all awoke
And then endlessly spoke
To themselves, lost in meta myopia.

Original comic here.

Bit late, this one, but I'm not going to overanalyse it.

Comic 978 - Citogenesis

From computers to scooters to skiffle
Wikipedia's packed full of piffle.
This citation cycle
Is taking the Michael
When it could have been beautiful. *sniffle*

Original comic here.

Comic 955 - Neutrinos

Light barrier broken? Aw, shucks!
But trying to urge caution sucks.
Instead, look for dudes
In excitable moods
And rinse them for two hundred bucks.

Original comic here.

Comic 911 - Magic School Bus

Whether comets, courgettes or Kon-Tiki,
Fact-finding these days is less tricky.
No magic bus biz
For the modern-day Frizz -
All roads lead, for shiz, straight to Wiki.

Original comic here.

Comic 906 - Advertising Discovery

Conditioning from Wikipedia
Is dangerous in other media:
A square-bracketed digit
Does not mean it's legit
So don't let the scoundrels mislead ya.

Original comic here.

Comic 903 - Extended Mind

An eminent man from Zagreb
Once kept his whole brain on the web.
He felt pretty flash
Till the servers went crash
And pop! Now he's not a celeb.

Original comic here.

Comic 895 - Teaching Physics

That rubber-sheet image of gravity
Has quite a large logical cavity
But the maths is a bore
So please just ignore;
It's hardly the depths of depravity!

Original comic here.

Comic 892 - Null Hypothesis

There once was a lab tech from Hull
Who couldn't get into his skull
That nowt interesting
Can come from one's testing
Without an hypothesis null.

Original comic here.

Classic comic 451 - Impostor

There once was a student from Split
Who pretended to be a lit crit
He bluffed and he stumbled
But never got rumbled
Until he was old and arthrit.

Original comic here.

Comic 882 - Significant

If you test everything willy nilly
No matter how far-fetched or silly
Results will, on occasion,
Show somethin' hair-raisin'
Till the follow-up test says "Not really!"

Original comic here.

My "Epistemology" label is really earning its keep lately.

Classic comic 171 - String Theory

One theory states that all things
Are made up of vibrating strings.
The real implications
Of these calculations
Are endless - and pigs all have wings.

Original comic here.

Then again, who knows what future discoveries lie in store?

Classic comic 373 - The Data So Far

I'd quite like to open my mind
About psychics, and things of that kind,
But so far all the data's
Supporting the haters
And leaving believing behind.

Original comic here.

Comic 877 - Beauty

A scientist's number one duty
Is to seek after truth and not beauty;
Or so we are told,
But check out my slime mould -
Maybe you'd like to hold? What a cutie!

Original comic here.

Comic 876 - Trapped

Each of us, from Garden to Oddie
Is a brain kept banged up in a body;
The far side of the fence is
Seen solely through senses
Whose info could be sharp or shoddy.

Original comic here.

Classic comic 357 - Flies

I know an old man from Devizes
Who sets out a bowl to catch flieses.
They all shun his honey
But vin's on the money -
Life's full of these funny surprises.

Original comic here.

I think using balsamic vinegar is cheating a bit, like if you took a horse to water when you knew it was really thirsty.

Comic 867 - Herpetology

In the view of some mean ornithologists
We should pity the daft herpetologists.
A taxonomical blunder
Comdemns them; file under
Reptilo-amphibo-apologists.

Original comic here.

Comic 863 - Major in the Universe

To see how the cosmos conspires
And interacts - this he desires
As his major; I think
He just wants to drink
And sit round reading Blink and Outliers.

Original comic here.

Comic 836 - Sickness

Diseases and sniffles and itches
Will not send me running to witches:
I stand in defiance
And laud the appliance
Of science - because it works, bitches.

Original comic here.

I apologise for the possibly offensive language, which is merely a reflection of the term used in the comic to which this forms a companion.