Engineers often devise some great practical jokes. No doubt you've been involved in a technical practical joke more than once. Perhaps the greatest practical joke that required some technology and ...

I was looking at some old copies of my Editor’s Viewpoint (editorials) and came across this one from 2002 that is still relevant. Paraphrasing the old TV program “People are Funny,” this could be ...

Writing my editor’s note this week got me thinking about my favorite engineering and physics jokes. Have you heard the one about the dairy farmer meeting his daughter's fiancé? The young man is a ...

Debashish Rath is a mechanical engineer whose career took a funny turn, quite literally, when he started performing as a stand-up artiste. Rath’s routines focus on storytelling as a comic device, ...

Had to pass this one along. Seems CIA Director David Petraeus made an amusing computer engineering joke to start of his speech at the recent In-Q-Tel CEO Summit. It goes like this: “Well, up front, I ...

Join us on 4 March for a special night of engineering themed stand-up comedy at the Brunel Museum, featuring Steve Cross and a lineup of London’s funniest engineers, alongside comedians including ...