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| Sharing Bacon | [[Ferdinand and a man wearing a jacket, shirt and sunglasses are standing in a field. Ferdinand is holding a slice of bacon]]
/ Ferdinand: Want some bacon?
/ Man: Well, I'm on a "See Food" diet. If I see food, I eat it. / Man: Get it? Ha ha ha!
/ Ferdinand: Yeah, *see* food, ha ha ha! / Ferdinand: Wait,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=512 |
| Sharing Bacon | [[Ferdinand and a man wearing a jacket, shirt and sunglasses are standing in a field. Ferdinand is holding a slice of bacon]]
/ Ferdinand: Want some bacon?
/ Man: Well, I'm on a "See Food" diet. If I see food, I eat it. / Man: Get it? Ha ha ha!
/ Ferdinand: Yeah, *see* food, ha ha ha! / Ferdinand: Wait,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=512 |
| Are We Moral Monsters? | {{ Harold and Ferdinand sitting on a bench. Ferdinand is about to eat a sandwich. }}
/ Harold: Before you eat that sandwich, consider this-- What if a starving child was sitting next to you right now? / Ferdinand: I'd give the child my sandwich of course. What's your point?
/ Harold: We're usually... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=513 |
| Are We Moral Monsters? | {{ Harold and Ferdinand sitting on a bench. Ferdinand is about to eat a sandwich. }}
/ Harold: Before you eat that sandwich, consider this-- What if a starving child was sitting next to you right now? / Ferdinand: I'd give the child my sandwich of course. What's your point?
/ Harold: We're usually... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=513 |
| Electromagnetism | Harold: With the exception of gravity pulling us to the earth, everything around us is due to the Electromagnetic Force.
/ {{ Ferdinand is chewing something-}}
/ < http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=514 |
| What is Wrong? | {{ Harold and Ferdinand taking a walk. ]]
/ Harold: Consider the statement "Murder is wrong." Most would agree with that sentiment, even though in cases of self defense or war murder may be justified. / Harold: So how do we decide whether to agree with such a generalization? Is something considered... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=515 |
| Coming to a Universe Near You | {{ Harold and Aaron take a walk }}
/ Aaron: In the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics there is a universe for every physically possible reality. / Harold: I guess that means that almost anything we could imagine is happening in a universe somewhere. / Aaron: If you think about it, there's... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=516 |
| Mensa Madness | Aaron: Recently we were contacted by American MENSA and told that one of our shirts violated their trademark.
/ [[ Ferdinand and Aaron are wearing the shirts in question. ]] / Ferdinand: Actually, the shirt was a reference to the German word for "cafeteria.". We were lampooning the low IQ of cafeteria... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=517 |
| At Least This is What I Remember | [[ Harold and Ferdinand out walking. ]]
/ Harold: Recent studies show that women have better memories than men. / Harold: Women especially outperform men when it comes to remembering words, pictures, and recognizing faces. / Ferdinand: Were the test subjects asked to recall who was on the July 1992... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=518 |
| The Circle is Complete | [[ Harold and Aaron out walking. ]]
/ Harold: Sometimes I worry when people with high-powered, time-consuming careers, like lawyers, decide to have children. / Harold: These parents often don't have time to devote to their kid's needs when focused on their ambitious law careers. If children don't receive... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=519 |
| Caption Contest III | [[ Caption Contest III ]]
/ [[ Ferdinand prepares to drive a futuristic vehicle. There's dials and indicators, bulbs, souped up exhaust pipes, some sort of reactor vessel filled with greenish liquid and a strip of bacon, a rocket nozzle at the rear. On the side of the vehicle: symbols for atomic, radiation,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=520 |
| Creationist Parenting | [[ In this strip, we see Ferdinand and Little Ferdinand. Ferd Jr is a smaller version of Ferdinand with wide-open eyes, unlike his dad's normal squint-eyed look. ]]
/ [[ First panel: Follow these easy steps and you too can raise your child to be a creationist. ]] / [[ Caption: Make use of Educational... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=521 |
| Perseverance | [[ Harold and Ferdinand take a walk. It seems to be winter, with a thin layer of snow on the ground. ]]
/ Harold: As children, we're constantly told that perseverance is an admirable quality. / [[ Now the snow has become a little deeper, about ankle-depth. ]]
/ Harold: But really, recognizing diminishing... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=522 |
| Three's a Crowd | [[ Ferdinand and Raymond at home. Raymond is watching TV. ]]
/ Ferdinand: Watching "Total Recall"?
/ Raymond: Yup, nothing beats a movie with a three-breasted woman. / Ferdinand: Hey, my girlfriend actually has three breasts too.
/ Raymond: No way, you're making that up.
/ Ferdinand: I'll show you. / [[... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=523 |
| Research Inspiration | [[ Ferdinand explains- hands out, palms up, speaking to someone off panel... ]]
/ Ferdinand: Richard Feynmann was a Nobel Prize winning physicist who was known to regularly work at topless bars. / [[ Ferdinand continues, more emphatic gestures... ]]
/ Ferdinand: Erwin Schrodinger, one of the founders... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=524 |
| Proof for Evolution | [[ This comic presents a sort of "genealogy chart". The chart is titled "PROOF FOR EVOLUTION".]]
/ [[ At the top level: "Creationism", which divides into "Young Earth Creationism" and "Old Earth Creationism". ]]
/ [[ "Young Earth Creationism" begat "Scientific Creationism", which then split into "Modern... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=525 |
| Consciousness | [[ Raymond and Harold out for a walk. ]]
/ Raymond: One of the great unsolved mysteries in Science is how this material world gives rise to consciousness. / Raymond: Even after many decades of research in artificial intelligence, the ability to create consciousness seems more elusive than ever. / Harold:... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=526 |
| Amazing Technology | [[ Raymond and Harold out for a walk. ]]
/ Harold: Sometimes I think we take for granted all the amazing technology we have around us. / Harold: You know what would be interesting? Take a bunch of famous people from the past, transport them to the present, and see their reactions to our modern world. / Raymond:... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=527 |
| Yo Mama Jokes: Star Wars Edition | [[ First panel: Calamities of Nature presents... Yo Mama Jokes: Star Wars Edition ]] / Ferdinand: Yo Mama is so fat that when the Stormtroopers fire their blasters they actually hit her. / Ferdinand: Yo Mama is such a slut that her openings are easier to infiltrate than the Death Star's. / Ferdinand:... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=528 |
| Going to the Movies | [[ Raymond shouts to Ferdinand, off panel ]]
/ Raymond: Ready to go see the movie "Thor"?
/ Ferdinand: Yup!... / [[ Ferdinand appears, holding two cameras, one in each hand. ]]
/ Ferdinand: ... And I'm going to bootleg it to make some money at the same time.
/ Raymond: Wait, why do you have _two_ video... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=529 |
| Praying to a Higher Power | [[ Single panel comic today. ]]
/ [[ Ferdinand, in a car, driving along a road. ]]
/ [[ In the rear window of the car, a decal shows a kneeling figure, hands clasped and head bowed. ]]
/ [[ The figure is facing a shadow, cast by what appears to be a Christian cross. ]]
/ [[ On closer inspection, it would... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=530 |
| Edwin Hubble | Harold: Edwin Hubble was one of the all-time great astronomers. / Harold: One of his most famous discoveries was that all distant galaxies are receding from the Milky Way, providing some of the first evidence for the Big Bang. / Aaron: A quick Google search indicates that he also had quite an affinity... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=531 |
| Vermin | [[ A plate with some crusts left out on the table...]]
/ Aaron: Who left this Pizza crust out?! / [[ Harold in an easy chair, reading a book...]]
/ Harold: That was me, sorry. Were you worried about getting cockroaches? / Aaron: No, worse.
/ [[ Knock! Knock! at the door. Aaron goes to open the door...... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=532 |
| Genghis Khan | Harold: Since the Y-chromosome is passed from father to son, it can be used to follow a family's lineage far back into the past. / Harold: From this we can estimate that today 16 million men share the Y-chromosome of Genghis Khan, making him one of the most prolific men in history. / Ferdinand: That's... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=533 |
| Mind Control | Harold: The parasite "Toxoplasma Gondii" can only reproduce sexually in the intestines of cats. / Caption: "When the parasite infects a rat, it controls the rat's brain and make the rat feel attracted to cats. This allows the rat to get eaten, so the parasite can reproduce".
/ [[ Image of a round,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=534 |
| Bad Analogy | [[Harold and Aaron are walking through the forest.]]
/ Harold: The right-wing group "Focus on the Family" put out a video arguing against the legalization of gay marriage. / Harold: The analogy they use is that allowing gay marriage is as unnatural as gravity repelling things instead of pulling them... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=535 |
| General Relativity | Aaron: In 1919, Sir Arthur Eddington measured the deflection of star light by the sun during a solar eclipse, confirming Einstein's theory of General Relativity on how mass warps space.
/ [[ Aaron indicates a background photo of a total solar eclipse. ]] / Aaron: [[narrating from off panel ]] The news... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=536 |
| How Versus Why | Harold: Even with all of Science's successes, it's fundamentally limited because it only provides descriptions and not explanations. / Harold: For example, Einstein's General Relativity gives a mathematical description of how gravity acts, but it doesn't tell us why. / Aaron: Why did you eat a sandwich... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=537 |
| Cheat Sheet | Alp: The end of the school year is approaching for many of you. / Alp: To help on your final exams, we've created a cheat sheet that you can cut out and sneak into you science and engineering classes. / [[ The third panel is 2 complex equations in a neat cut-out box. ]]
/ [[ According to commenter "Maestoso":... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=538 |
| Spreading Fear | [[ Harold and Aaron take a walk. ]]
/ Harold: No matter where you look these days, there's someone trying to convince you to be afraid of the world. / Harold: It doesn't matter if it's conservative or liberal media, because spreading fear sells better than providing information. / Aaron: Does that scare... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=539 |
| Light Pollution | [[Harold and Raymond sit on a cliff looking at a city across the water on a starlit night.]]
/ Harold: It must have been amazing before there was light pollution everywhere. Every night you could see a spectacular star-filled sky, no matter where you were. / Harold: I wonder if astronomy would be more... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=540 |
| Cell Phones | [[Ferd is talking on the cell phone.]]
/ Fred: Hey Aaron, did you hear that the World Health Organization announced that cell phones may cause brain cancer? / [[Aaron replies over the cell phone]]
/ Aaron: They simply classified cell phones as Group 2B carcinogens, a list that includes pickled vegetables... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=541 |
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