Hulleye Comes By!

the genius of pervez hoodbhoy last month wrote an article on the demise of science in the islamic world. he poses the question, “With well over a billion Muslims and extensive material resources, why is the Islamic world disengaged from science and the process of creating new knowledge?” it’s a wonderful read as he explains how islam first encountered science, excelled at it, how it is ailing, what current progress has been made, how it is currently related with religion and how science can return to the islamic world”. definitely give it a read. it’s worth at least brimming through.

Why do mathematicians like national parks?
Because of the natural logs.

Why do mathematicians think Halloween and Christmas are the same?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.

Why did the chicken cross the Möbius strip?
To get to the same side

What do you call an eigen-sheep?
A lamb, duh.

A mathematician, an engineer and a chemist are at a conference. They are staying in adjoining rooms. One evening they are downstairs in the bar. The mathematician goes to bed first. The chemist goes next, followed a minute or two later by the engineer. The chemist notices that in the corridor outside their rooms a rubbish bin is ablaze. There is a bucket of water nearby. The chemist starts concocting a means of generating carbon dioxide in order to create a makeshift extinguisher but before he can do so the engineer arrives, dumps the water on the fire and puts it out. The next morning the chemist and engineer tell the mathematician about the fire. He admits he saw it. They ask him why the hell he didn’t put it out. He replies contemptuously “there was a fire and a bucket of water: a solution obviously existed.”

Three statisticians go duck hunting. Their dog chases out a duck and it starts to fly. The first statistician aims and takes his shot, it misses a foot too high. The second statistician aims and takes his shot, it misses a foot too low. The third statistician says, “We got him!”

An atom is walking down the street when he meets a friend of his, who is evidently distraught. “What’s the matter…is everything OK?” the atom asks his friend. “Well, I think I might have lost an electron,” responds the other atom. “Are you sure?” asks the first. “I’m positive!” replies his friend.

At first there was post-secret. And then there were lolcats. And now, they’ve come together, as lolsecretz.

“Some of these are too funny to be sad; others are too sad to be funny”