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• Food for thought
• Food for laughter
• Cartoons

Food for thought

• The Irascible Professor - Irreverent commentary on American universities and schools
• What does an academic do all day?
• What does a PhD student do all day?
• The table-tennis theory of time
• Folk wisdom for postgrads
• The Academic's Guide to Newspaper Writing - How to write an opinion article for a newspaper
• Because we've always done it that way

 Food for laughter

• Anecdotes out of Academia 
• Which type of PhD student are you?
• How nerdy are you?
• Frodo, PhD candidate
• Humour - IT
• Humour - Mathematics
• Humour - Economics
• The Quotations Page - An online encyclopedia of quotable quotes
• The case of the disappearing teaspoons - a humorous lab research paper produced by an Australian institution and published in the British Medical Journal (2005)

 Cartoons

• Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) - Cartoons on postgraduate life in America
• VADLO Life in Research - cartoons for scientists.
• Dilbert as a boy  (cartoon movie clip)