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Chicken chicken chicken

Yoram Bauman · talk · Watch on YouTube

Satire & parodyScientific method & science communication

What it is

Doug Zongker's deadpan conference presentation of his famously chicken-filled paper, given at the 2007 AAAS humor session. It satirizes academic talks while showing the pitfalls of bad presentation.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Beloved as a humor masterpiece and often cited as required viewing on what not to do in an academic talk.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 6 different months
  • 4 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “It is probably the better way to approach the paper, due to the importance of timing in comedy”

    Video presentation of the paper, better than reading it; funny commentary.

    jerf, 2018-11 · Strong recommendation · in “A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo." (1999-2015)”

  2. “Do not miss the audience question at the end. Beautiful academic satire.”

    Beautiful academic satire, low quality recording, great ending Q&A.

    fbdab103, 2023-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Trashcan – web based service for indexing scientific papers, or other documents”

  3. “This should be required viewing for every academic author.”

    Shows common presentation errors; should be required viewing for academics.

    Joel_Mckay, 2024-06 · Strong recommendation · in “A long guide to giving a short academic talk (2022)”

  4. “Do check out the presentation”

    Presentation detailing the project's motivations and implementation.

    baggers, 2013-07 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language”

  5. “Doug also gives a really good presentation on the same material”

    Good presentation of the same material as the paper.

    JamesCoyne, 2022-11 · Recommendation · in “I quit my programmer job to become a chicken”

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Topics: chicken, satire, academic talks, humor, presentations

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