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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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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-}} / <> / Harold: It's amazing that such a wide variety of phenomena can be understood as having the same underlying mechanism. / {{ Ferdinand,...
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...
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...
 
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
 
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...
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. / [[...
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...
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...
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:...
 
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:...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
 
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......
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...
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,...
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...
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...
 
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...
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":...
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...
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...
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...
 

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