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| Cultural Shift | [[ Aaron and Harold walking in an autumn woods, by a lake or stream. ]]
/ Harold: Solving Global Warming will require a dramatic shift in the way we normally think. / Harold: Instead of focusing on the short term, we must realize that sacrifices now can have long term benefits. / Harold: Instead of... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=421 |
| See You in the Funny Pages | [[ Aaron and Harold at a table, both reading newspapers. ]]
/ Harold: The key to making syndicated comic strips is to never offend anyone. / Aaron: Well, they offend me.
/ Harold: Why's that? / Aaron: They offend my sense of humor.
/ {{alt text: When I was ten-years-old, all I wanted was to be in the... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=422 |
| The Surprise Paradox | [[ Harold and Raymond talking... ]]
/ Raymond: Me and the other guys have decided to throw you a *surprise party* sometime between now and Friday.
/ Harold: Wow, thanks! / Harold: But I guess the surprise party can't be on Friday.
/ Raymond: Why's that? / Harold: If you wait until the end of the week,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=423 |
| Just Imagine the Feynman Diagram | [[Alp and Ferdinand. Alp is holding a flashlight in one hand and a piece of paper in the other. The flashlight is on, and Alp is shining the beam on the paper. ]]
/ Alp: Wanna hear an amazing fact? You see this flashlight shining on the paper?
/ Ferdinand: Yeah. / Alp: According to the path integral... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=424 |
| Politicized Entertainment | [[ Harold and Aaron walking in a late-fall woods. The sky color suggests it maybe just after sunset (or before sunrise?). ]]
/ Harold: The use of divisive politics as entertainment is big business these days. / Harold: On the right, there's Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh... / Harold: But... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=425 |
| Communal Memory | Harold: We think of memories as only being in our own minds, but really they're communal in their nature. / Harold: People used to share stories verbally to ensure that certain memories and knowledge would never be forgotten. This was eventually replaced with books. / Harold: Today it has spread to... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=426 |
| Going Dutch | [[ Harold and Aaron sitting at a table, each reading a newspaper. ]]
/ Harold: California will be voting on a measure to legalize and tax marijuana this fall.
/ Aaron: It's about time. / Aaron: Legalization will result in a major reduction of law enforcement costs, open up space in overcrowded prisons,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=427 |
| Vegetarians Can Eat Bacon, Right? | [[ Ferdinand in a yellow-green field with a green tree, meets a young woman. ]]
/ Ferdinand: Want some bacon?
/ Woman: [[ Smiling gently ]] Sorry, I'm a vegetarian. / Ferdinand: Don't worry, it won't necessarily make you a carnivore. / [[ The woman is getting annoyed... ]]
/ Ferdinand: For example, I... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=428 |
| The Scientific Process | [[ Aaron and Raymond walking in a woods of tall trees with skinny trunks. ]]
/ Raymond: I wonder why anyone would dedicate themselves to something as cold and mechanical as science. / Aaron: It actually requires a lot of creativity to devise and test ideas so as to figure out how nature works. / Aaron:... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=429 |
| How Do You Measure Love? | [[Alp walk into the living room and Harold is standing next to a record player holding the album cover to Led Zeppelin's II.]]
/ Alp: What are you listening to?
/ Harold: Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love." / Alp: It bothers me when Robert Plant sings "I'm going to give you every inch of my love."
/ Harold:... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=430 |
| No Turning Back | [[ Harold and Aaron out walking. Two roads diverge in front of them. ]]
/ Harold: In Life you have one of two choices, and both require a compromise. / Harold: Either you can dedicate yourself to becoming really good at one thing, but miss out on the breadth of other experiences... / Harold: ... or... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=431 |
| What Advice Would You Give? | [[ Panel: If you could make a phone call back in time and give your 15-year-old self one piece of advice, what would it be? ]] / Raymond: You're probably not going to retire off your comic book collection. / Ferdinand: If you want to be the coolest guy at Prom, wear a bacon tuxedo! / Harold: If you're... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=432 |
| Love Versus Hate | {{This comic has three panel: Two normal-sized panels, stacked, on the left, and a large panel, the width of three panels of a four-panel comic, and equally tall.}}
/ {{Panel one is the upper left.}}
/ [[Harold, talking to us, standing in front of a blue-gray background.
/ The BG fades to gray, radially,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=433 |
| Childhood Amnesia | [[ Harold and Aaron walking under a clear, starry night sky. ]]
/ Harold: Childhood amnesia is a strange mystery. Most typically don't remember anything before 3 years old. / Harold: There are many theories why this is. Some hypothesize that it's due to limited language skills. / Harold: Others argue... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=434 |
| Happy 60th Birthday | [[ Harold sitting at home in an easy-chair, reading a paper. The wall is gray, the floor is brown, the chair is mauve. The door bell rings. ]]
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| The Ig Nobel Prizes | Narrator: THE IG NOBEL PRIZES WERE AWARDED LAST WEEK TO CELEBRATE RESEARCH THAT MAKES PEOPLE LAUGH AS WELL AS THINK.
/ Narrator: LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT SOME OF THE WINNERS. / [[Woman clutches her throat with an expression of pain, man is pleading with Ferdinand, who is standing around and watching her]]
/ Narrator:... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=436 |
| Math Pays | Ferdinand: SOMEDAY I WANT A FERRARI TESTAROSSA.
/ Harold: HOW COULD YOU EVER AFFORD THAT? / Ferdinand: I'M GOING TO DO SOME MATH TUTORING.
/ Harold: HOW WOULD THAT MAKE YOU ENOUGH MONEY? / Ferdinand: I FIGURE I CAN OVERCHARGE. http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=437 |
| How to Get Traffic on the Internet | [[Ferdinand and Harold are talking. Harold is looking at some papers, worried.]]
/ Ferdinand: WHAT'S THE MATTER?
/ Harold: OUR WEBSITE NUMBERS ARE DOWN. WE NEED TO GET MORE TRAFFIC. / Harold: MAYBE WE NEED AN EYE CATCHING IMAGE TO DRAW PEOPLE TO OUR SITE -- SOMETHING THAT'S EXCITING AND CUTTING EDGE,... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=438 |
| Self-Esteem | [[ Raymond and Harold walking in the woods--]]
/ Raymond: If you act like you have low self-esteem, then you probably _do_ have low self-esteem. / Raymond: But if you act like your have _high_ self-esteem, then you're probably overcompensating because you again have low self-esteem. / Raymond: So does... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=439 |
| Time Dilation | [[ Aaron and Harold talking in a field. ]]
/ Aaron: According to Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, the faster you go, the slower time proceeds. / Harold: Wow, could that be the secret to fighting getting old? / Aaron: No, but that doesn't stop people from trying.
/ [[ View pulls back to show Ferdinand... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=440 |
| Low Hanging Fruit | [[ Harold and Aaron talking under a fruit tree loaded with apples, ripe and easily within reach. ]]
/ Harold: Missionaries often focus on converting people who are poor and face hardship and adversity. / Harold: But doesn't it say something if the people most susceptible to this are those that are most... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=442 |
| It's Not Coming Back | [[Alp and Harold stand at the edge of a cliff, overlooking the water.]]
/ Alp: Check out my spiffy, new invention, The Super-Duper Boomerang!
/ Harold: Wow, let's try it! / [[Alp throws the boomerang.]]
/ < http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=443 |
| Physics Pick Up Lines | [[ Panel: Dating Pro tip: Using Physics in your pick up lines is guaranteed to get you some *action*. ]] / [[ Ferdinand in a bar, tries out physics pick up lines ]]
/ Ferdinand: Hey Baby, do you want to learn about stimulated emission?
/ Woman: Looks like my years of Kung Fu training are finally going... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=444 |
| Fear the Beard | Harold: Ferd, are you excited that the Giants are in the World Series?
/ Ferdinand: Just a minute. / [[ Ferdinand grits his teeth, makes a little effort...]]
/ Ferdinand: ARRGG!! / [[ Hair sprouts on Ferdinand's face as he continues to strain... ]]
/ < http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=445 |
| No Appreciation | [[ Ferdinand appears to be making a balloon animal from a brownish-maroon colored balloon. ]]
/ Ferdinand: Okay, just one more twist and I'll be done. / [[ Alp watches as Ferd tries to hand his creation to a little girl. ]]
/ Ferdinand: Here's your little doggie.
/ Child: [[ running away ]] AIIEEE!! MOMMY!! / Alp:... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=446 |
| Feynman Would Approve | [[Harold and Ferdinand stand together with a sunset off in the distance. Ferdinand looks excited with his arms raised over his head in triumph.]]
/ Ferdinand: I did it! I completed classes in classical mechanics, complex analysis, abstract algebra, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, special... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=447 |
| 56 Years, But Worth the Wait | [[ An old comic strip from Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" This is taken from the comic that appeared in newspapers on December 22, 1962 ]]
/ [[1st panel: Charlie Brown and Linus sitting on a sidewalk step, heads in their hands, arms resting on their knees, looking sad and glum.]] / [[2nd panel: Same as the... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=448 |
| Apples and Oranges | [[ Harold and Alp sitting at the end of a dock in a lake with a sunset in the background. ]]
/ Harold: ...I don't agree, you're comparing apples and oranges.
/ Alp: Wait, apples and oranges? Is that supposed to imply to *dissimilar* things? / Alp: Apples and oranges are both fruits that we eat and juice.... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=449 |
| Guest Comic by the Buttersafe Guys | [[Guest Comic by the Buttersafe Guys]]
/ [[Harold and Aaron take a walk.]] / Harold: How come in our comics, everyone has just eight fingers and one very large eyeball? / Harold: I mean, evolutionarily, we probably shouldn't even exist. We lose our eye, that's it! There's no backup. Heck, you don't... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=450 |
| Guest Comic by Adam Huber | [[ Guest comic by Adam Huber ]]
/ [[ Harold and Aaron taking a walk. Head-only view of Harold, Aaron a little further from the viewer. ]]
/ Aaron: I don't see the point of trying to be a good person. / [[ View focuses on Aaron making hand gestures. ]]
/ Aaron: Someday the Universe will collapse in on... http://calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=451 |
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