Science Spoofs, Physics Pranks and Astronomical Antics
  Some scientists take themselves and their work very seriously. However, there
are plenty of cases of humour being combined with science. Here I review some
examples from the broad fields of physics and astronomy, particularly focusing
on practical jokes and paper parodies. This is a mostly serious overview of a
non-serious subject, but I'd like to claim that there is in fact some
connection between humour and creativity in the physical sciences.
