Mad Science: a growing field.

[cadhla]

The lovely Lisa decided to start my day off right -- or maybe just decided to pacify me and thus help to guarantee the survival of the planet where she keeps all her stuff for a few more days -- by providing a link to delight and inspire. And I, because I believe in sharing, will now provide that link to you. Specifically:

Ten Simple Rules for

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[scifantasy]

Mad science makes me happy. Jumper cables, Jacob's ladders, brains in jars, big red switches ripe for pulling...

Really, what more does a girl need?

A hunchbacked assistant?

[hms42]

A good sidekick? Have you heard Matt Leger's "Evil is a four letter word, too?"

[thatcrazycajun]

Thank you very much, sir, for the compliment of name-checking me. But for the real authoritative info, you have to go to the place I got inspired to come up with that song: The Evil Overlord List by Peter Anspach.

"They laughed me out of the university...They said I was mad! But I'll show them! I'll show them all...Muah-ha-ha-ha-ha!" >:-)

[hms42]

You set it to music and that was the one that immediately came to mind on this topic.

[rysmiel]

I have the image of the very first initial aptitude text for undergrads wishing to go on to graduate studies in evil being a row of babies from which to take candy.

Also, the expression "Malignant Hypercognitive Disorder" seems to float over this entire field.

[wendyzski]

I always loved the line from one of the Vorkosigan novels.

"He's NOT a mad scientist! He's merely a very upset engineer!"

[hsifyppah]

Jumper cables, Jacob's ladders, brains in jars,

My husband and his brother made a working Jacob's ladder one night at the dinner table. (see icon.) I... there was swooning.