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Maggie Koerth-Baker at 8:59 am Wed, Jul 27, 2011

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Better yet, I Can Has Cheezburger has a whole gallery of these things. Besides this one, the potassium joke is one of my favorites.

Thanks Antinous!

Maggie Koerth-Baker is the science editor at BoingBoing.net. She writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine and is the author of Before the Lights Go Out, a book about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy. You can find Maggie on Twitter and Facebook.

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  • digi_owl

    Science cat chasing lab rats next?

  • zombiebob

    The cat is thinking: Ok, I sat through this ridiculous shoot. NOW  I can haz Cheezburger?

  • Lolotehe

    “…[T]he potassium joke is one of my favorites.”

    Or as we call it in the South, o’potassium.

  • bbonyx

    A favorite moment of mine, which fell on deaf ears, at a job few years ago…
    We had a company come in to pitch some technical training. The company was named “Element K” ( a quick google shows them to still be around).
    Their first presentation slide asked the question “What is Element K?”
    I gleefully broadcast to the room “Potassium!”
    No one laughed. Not even the Element K people. Sadly, not because they were sick of hearing that, but rather in a befuddled “We don’t get it” way. Wow. From a technical training company.
    And you want to be my latex salesman!?!?!?!?!?

    • http://openid.claimid.com/ajxn Anders

      bbonyx, Real scientist use LaTeX in their work. :)