Colin Perkins
Science: Explained
by Colin Perkins - August 20, 2010 - 11:00 AM

Science is hard to understand. Thankfully, the Fake Science blog provides a series of easy to understand illustrated diagrams which break down all manner of scientific concept. Sure, they are completely inaccurate and ridiculous in every way. But what they lack in “facts” they more than make up for in absurdist hilarity.

(Via Artsy Spot)

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Comments (18)

  1. LOVE IT!

    posted by beth on 8-20-2010 at 11:24 am

  2. That is PURE awesomeness!!

    posted by Dan on 8-20-2010 at 11:44 am

  3. This totally made my day. Good gosh, I love the _floss.

    posted by adrienne on 8-20-2010 at 11:46 am

  4. There were a few dinosaurs who survived, but they were so tired that they barely lived long enough to develop the characteristic bark and short legs of a certain dog breed “caninicus sausugus.” Then they proceeded to fall back in the holes and bark when they couldn’t get out. That, of course, is the story of the genetic development of the mouse-hunting dog, the dachshund. Early man retrieved a few out of the holes, and they haven’t stopped yapping since.

    posted by Tim S. on 8-20-2010 at 12:23 pm

  5. Tim S., I love thinking my dachshund is descended from a dinosaur!
    I have to point out, though, that they hunt badgers, not mice–thank goodness! Otherwise, there’d be several surprises waiting in our laundry room when cold weather hits.

    posted by Grobanite33 on 8-20-2010 at 2:18 pm

  6. This is great! I love their tagline: For when the facts are too confusing. And are those the facts/answers you often want to give to people at work? Just because it would be easier?

    posted by Rachel on 8-20-2010 at 2:33 pm

  7. “aren’t those” — “aren’t those the answers you often want to give to people at work. Geez — sorry for the typo.

    posted by Rachel on 8-20-2010 at 2:34 pm

  8. adorable! these are the sorts of thing i would blow up and put on my walls if i was a science teacher… its probably good that i am not.

    posted by tiffany on 8-20-2010 at 2:58 pm

  9. @Grobanite33:

    Only a mentalflosser would correct someone spinning a yarn. I plead this excuse: Ich bin ein dummer Amerikaner. Tschüß!

    posted by Tim S. on 8-20-2010 at 3:58 pm

  10. @Tim S.

    I love your “yarn” and your reply. When I had dackels, I never had any problems with mice or badgers! But you’re absolutely right, always barking…

    posted by Kani on 8-20-2010 at 6:05 pm

  11. Tim S. — You need to start a website where you spin yarns like that all day. They’d make excellent bedtime stories.

    posted by Jason English on 8-20-2010 at 6:26 pm

  12. I don’t know about a website. I mean Woody Allen and Stephen Colbert do such a wonderful job of putting people on (“Take the Money and Run” is my favorite from Woody) that my work would be superfluous. If I did start writing bedtime stories, they’d either start sounding like Thurber or Edgar Allen Poe. There are enough TRUE scary stories out there: “…and Wall Street huffed and puffed and ruined Daddy’s retirement fund, so you’ll be caring for me in my twilight years. Sweet dreams.”

    posted by Tim S. on 8-20-2010 at 7:07 pm

  13. Gotta love fake science. reminds me of the creationist museum.

    posted by Daily Dawdle on 8-23-2010 at 8:50 pm

  14. this has made my day

    posted by kateweb on 10-6-2010 at 1:56 pm

  15. I thought this was so funny. It was really well thought up and I liked it. You know what I hate? When you’re eating a taco and the shell brakes in half. Then you just have a mound of Mexican crap on your plate. It’s the same way with hot dogs. You’re trying to eat the thing and the bun just splits apart. Well I have an English paper to write and it’s super late so I’m going to go work on that. If you took the time to read this you are awesome. I love you all have a fantastic weekend. xoxoxo

    posted by Adriana Coy on 1-13-2011 at 8:43 pm

  16. That is true, how did the dinosaurs get buried in the earth? It’s not like they had funerals n stuff. weird.

    posted by Trevor on 1-17-2011 at 12:56 pm

  17. to all the people who have commented that “this has made my day” i think your life must be really dull if this makes your day, it usually takes me at least 2 grams.

    posted by roberto on 1-28-2011 at 2:01 pm

  18. No Roberto, life need not be “DULL” to take pleasure in such inanities. Only “DARK”.
    With so much DARKNESS about, can you not
    let others enjoy their “2 GRAMS?” and keep your cynicism to yourself?
    signed:
    ANOTHER ESCAPIST WEAKLING

    posted by samophlange on 6-28-2011 at 2:45 am

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