1. Trans people have low quality of life, maybe it’s because they can get fired for being trans in over 50% of the USA…?

    Master’s in Social Work,  Loyola University

     


  2. Screw it, I’m going to listen to unpopular music instead.

    Music, University of Calgary

    The Importance of Musicianship in Modern Music

     


  3. Can we make big planes better? Turns out we can’t.

    Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales (Australia)

    “An Investigation into Energy Recovery Systems for Large Commercial Aircraft via Comparative Cycle, Sensitivity and Exergetic Analyses”

     


  4. Satan and Beelzebub are an old married couple and here’s a 30 page fan fiction proving it.

    English, CUNY Baruch College

     


  5. The American embargo intended to impoverish Cuba really, really did its job, and I can prove it with statistics.

    Economics, University of Chicago

     


  6. Do students think that some users on YikYak are weird, horrible people? Well, probably…

    Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara

    An Expectancy Violations Theory and Social Identity Approach to Understanding Normative Deviance Online

     


  7. Stable radicals accidentally much easier to make than we thought

    Chemistry, University of Durham

    Synthesis and evaluation of novel stable Blatter radicals

     


  8. Murder sounds like a great idea when you explain it in iambic pentameter.

    Shakespeare Studies, King’s College London

    “Unnatural Acts”: Natural Law and Moral Crisis in Shakespeare’s Tragic World

     


  9. The Hunger Games is all about sex and space.

    English, University of Calgary

    “Heteronormative Homes and Sexually Deviant Streets: Mapping the Spatial and Sexual Geographies of Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games Trilogy”

     


  10. There is no tuberculosis in sea lion vomit, trust me I’ve looked.

    Bioanthropology, University of Otago

    Tuberculosis in the New Zealand sea lion

     


  11. This protein ruined my career and my mental health and after 5 years I still don’t know what it does.

    Molecular Biology, University of Southern California

    Positive regulation of RNA polymerase III-mediated transcription of tRNA genes by the Mediator kinase submodule 

     


  12. I used a ten billion dollar particle accelerator to look for a particle that theoretically shouldn’t exist. I didn’t find it.

    CERN, Geneva

    Search for High Mass States Decaying to Tau Pairs with the CMS Experiment

     


  13. Don’t shoot the donkeys, people think they’re cute

    History, University of Oklahoma

    “The Burro Evil”: The Removal of Feral Burros from Grand Canyon National Park

     


  14. I actually touched 580 isopods (ocean grasshoppers) and I still have no idea if they’re photosynthetic.

    Biology, WA

    “Behavioral analysis of Pentidotea resecata: daytime versus nighttime activity and the possible photosynthetic applications.”

     


  15. Only one 19th century poet wrote about Morgan le Fay and he was probably just mad about the Civil War

    English, University of Prince Edward Island

    “Thou art Troubled Morgane”: The Southern Politics of Morgan le Fay in Madison Cawein’s “Morgan le Fay” and “Accolon of Gaul”