The Science News Cycle

[MrMonk]

See the 5/18/2009 comic.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

[TZ]

1. OMG...thats awesome.

And 2/3 of that cycle can be seen here on DU....:rofl:

[mr blur]

2. Only 2/3?

[TZ]

4. The actuall scientific research part...

The pure actual data and results. I don't think thats EVER actually been posted here...:rofl:

[progressoid]

3. Haaaa!

You should really post that in GD or Health. :evilgrin:

[realisticphish]

5. "Can you explain it to grandma?"

is a good bar for whether a particular bit of research is consumable by the public at large

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. Gee thanks

Love, Grandma

[realisticphish]

9. haha nt

[lizerdbits]

6. Bwahahaha!

I sent this around today at work. Thanks!

[realisticphish]

7. I love PHD comics

even though I'm not a traditional grad student, a lot of it applies to me

[Nevernose]

10. As an English teacher, I loved last week's

A: What good does are science and technology if we don't ask ourselves the question, "What does it mean to be a human being?"

B: So, how's the answer coming along?

A: Oh no, we don't actually answer the question, we just ask it.

True on so many levels! Also, that's the reason that kids hate English: there is no right or wrong answer, there is only the answer you can defend (much like science, in fact). Math at that level is very cut and dried, there is no room for interpretation; you either have the correct answer or you don't.