Leading physicists have conceded that they may not yet know enough about the nature of the universe to explain the existence of IKEA, after a couple entered the Gateshead store and emerged two hours later with a bag of tealights, some Swedish meatballs, and having aged forty years.
Posted: Apr 4th, 2011
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Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts has written to further education establishments in England and Wales requesting that as part of their science courses they introduce mandatory modules on communication skills and elocution.
One government spokesman said the growing trend for ‘normal’ accents is ‘undermining the gravitas and integrity of British science and must stop right now.’
Posted: Mar 21st, 2011
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The professor has recently postulated on the infinite expansion of the universe, the origin of matter and the need for an arms boycott of Taiwan.
Posted: Sep 17th, 2010
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As part of his campaign to abolish bad and unnecessary legislation, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has announced plans to abolish the second law of thermodynamics – the law that states the universal principle of entropy.
‘The British people are sick and tired of things continually breaking down,’ said Mr Clegg, ‘this law stands in the way of progress and it has to go.’ The announcement follows extensive consultation in which the public were invited to nominate the laws that they would most like to see abolished. ‘There was a clear consensus that the universal principle of decay had become a real nuisance,’ said Mr Clegg, before going on to promise what he described as ‘the biggest shake-up to the fundamental laws of physics since the Big Bang.’
Posted: Jul 5th, 2010
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