Test

Then there’s the Bechdel Turing test, where you read two different characters’ lines without knowing the gender of the characters, and if you can’t tell which one is female, it passes.

(For anyone not in the know: Schrödinger’s cat and the Bechdel test.  Which, incidentally, would be an awesome name for a band.)

Mad

On the other hand, when the mad mathematician threatens to divide by zero, I think it’s just a ploy for attention.

Influence

Big comic today.  You were warned.  Click through to see the whole thing.

Science

Curse you, neurobiology!

Humanities

Academia is like a family– a big, wonderful, dysfunctional family.