Discover the Science
                Behind The Simpsons

What's Science Ever Done for Us?


  A playful and entertaining look at the science behind the world's most popular animated series
from three-eyed fish to donut-shaped universes.


     What's Science Ever Done for Us? 
     What The Simpsons Can Teach Us About
     Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe

          
                    By Paul Halpern

      




"The Simpsons... never assumes that its audience is too dull to dig the real questions in science and ethics that it poses.  Part of its charm is that it's not so full of itself to pretend that it has easy answers to them either.  We're looking forward to reading What's Science Ever Done For Us?  when it comes out in July.
                                            -TechRevu



Learn the answers to these baffling questions and more:


Chapter Titles:


PART ONE:  IT’S ALIVE
1. The Simpson Gene
2. You Say Tomato, I Say Tomacco
3. Blinky, The Three-Eyed Fish
4. Burns’s Radiant Glow  
5. We All Live in a Cell-Sized Submarine
6. Lisa’s Recipe for Life
7. Look Homer-ward Angel

PART TWO: MECHANICAL PLOTS
8. D’ohs Ex Machina
9. Perpetual Commotion
10. Dude, I’m an Android
11. Rules for Robots
12. Chaos in Cartoonland  
13. Fly in the Ointment

PART THREE:  NO TIME TO D’OHS
14. Clockstopping
15. A Toast to the Past
16. Frinking about the Future

PART FOUR:  SPRINGFIELD, THE UNIVERSE, AND BEYOND
17. Lisa’s Scoping Skills
18.  Diverting Rays
19. The Plunge Down Under  
20.  If Astrolabes Could Talk
21. Cometary Cowabunga
22. Homer’s Space Odyssey
23. Could This Really be the End?
24. Foolish Earthlings
25. Is the Universe a Donut?
26. The Third Dimension of Homer

INCONCLUSION:  THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

THE SIMPSONS MOVIE HANDY SCIENCE CHECKLIST


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External Links:



The Simpsons Archive

Mathematics on the Simpsons

Stephen Hawking on the Simpsons

Stephen Hawking on the Simpsons


Physics World:  "Science and the Simpsons"

Marco Malaspina's Master's Thesis about Science on the Simpsons (in Italian)

Guardian: "Eat My Lab Coat"

Seed:  "Meet the Geeks"

Scotsman:  "Simpsons a Scientific Revelation"

The Official Simpsons Television Page

The Official Simpsons Movie Page

Link to The Simpsons Movie Website