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Alternative title: Science, Humour and the Absurd
Issue Details: First known date: 2022... no. 7 August 2022 of Science Write Now est. 2020 Science Write Now
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'I’ve been thinking about what humour is, and what it means for something to be ‘funny’. There are definitely different kinds of funny depending on where you live—I know this as a midwestern American now living in Australia. Love you, Oz, but I will never understand Kath & Kim. (I am, however, with you on Team The Office UK.) '

Notes

  •  Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed. Other material in this issue includes:

    What You Always Wanted to Know About Mathematicians But Were Afraid to Ask: An Anthropology of Mathematicians in the Late Afternoon by Jennifer Woodworth

    Galileo's Daughter By David Salner

    At Altitude then no more light and Sit, Rest by David P. Miller

    People in Deaf Houses and Science according to Amber by Paul Hostovsky

    Both in Kansas and Not in Kansas by Aaron Sandberg

    And if we are by James B. Nicola

    Moa’s Advice To The Kākāpō By Mary Cresswell

    State of the Universe by Flavian Mark Lupinetti

    The Thing That Hits You in the Head by Morgan Driscoll

    The Origin of Mass and Three Pounds of Matter by Nicole Cosme

    Sense Perception and Ten Fun Facts about Silence by Valerie Sopher

    What is the Normal Life of a Jellyfish? by Dave Malone

    The Teetering Vase Contemplates Gravity by Catherine McGuire 

    Tip Diebæck’s Licentia Pearl By Marc Phillips

Contents

* Contents derived from the 2022 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Laughing and Crying : Absurdist Theatre, Science and Climate Crisis, Oliver Gough , single work essay

'Rapidly rising sea levels and temperatures, erratic and severe weather: we have made nature uncanny, broken and unpredictable. In his book Dark Ecology, eco-critical philosopher Tim Morton describes global warming as a “wicked problem for which time is running out, for which there is no central authority; those seeking the solution are also creating it” (37). Our modern plot has dark irony and repetition, paradox and illogic. The Anthropocene is absurdist.' (Introduction)
Free Cheese and Crackers, Sarah Keenihan , single work essay
An Uncertain Electricity, Angela Meyer , single work short story
The Funny Formula, Nick Marone , single work short story
Carbon Copy Consumables, Deborah Sheldon , single work short story
Adherence to the Committee Process, Chris Moss , single work short story
Customer Service, P. P. Donati , single work short story
Repopulation, Jay Sykes , single work short story
The Carbon Snakei"In grade 6, our science teacher did an experiment.", William Fox , single work poetry
Ann Hodges, 1954i"Sheesh,", Mark O'Flynn , single work poetry
Being Sixtyi"There is a happiness to being sixty, and still in reasonable", Carol Jenkins , single work poetry
The Un-Selfi"Thinking of dander, strands of hair bound to brushes,", Carol Jenkins , single work poetry
Toy Peoplei"Scientists report they have", Carol Jenkins , single work poetry
Quantum Stringi"The cat who's finally learnt", Jenny Blackford , single work poetry
Lizard-Skini"Half-way up the sodden yard", Jenny Blackford , single work poetry
Ghosts of Ancient Underwater Cloudsi"Ghosts of ancient", Jenny Blackford , single work poetry
In Space Your Body Does Crazy Thingsi"Because of some metabolic anomaly", Bronwyn Lovell , single work poetry
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