If you haven't seen the Olive and Mabel videos, this is a short (4-minute) introduction. The videos will make you smile or your money back.
More details on Andrew Cotter and his two dogs here. (12 minute video.)
The poster, Jason Kottke, writes that this is "one of the best optical illusions" he's seen. I agree.
I have no idea if the author, who has "hereditary Slavs," is right, but I thought her piece was amusing.
I wish I had known about this when I was teaching.
This article shows that a highly statistically significant correlation exists between stork populations and human birth rates across Europe. While storks may not deliver babies, unthinking interpretation of correlation and p-values can certainly deliver unreliable conclusions.
What Instapundit calls our "new paper of record," The Babylon Bee, strikes again.
See also "Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree" and "Texas Passes Law Banning Californians From Voting After They Move There".
I've thought for a while now that the warnings on TV ads for pharmaceuticals--for drugs that have been approved, mind you--are astonishing. Saturday Night Live apparently agrees and so we have this funny two-minute video.
Guy with two cute Labradors satirizes sportscasting.
Magic with a bit of humor. (9 minute video.)
Cute as can be.