Science With a Grin

Science Meets Politics

Because budgets, treaties and big discoveries can all use a sharper caption.

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Science Meets Politics

12 original creations

Science With a Grin political cartoon showing solar, battery storage and wind dominating planned 2026 United States generating capacity while opposition tries to stop the transition — The Clean-Energy Shift Has Already Left the Station
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Science With a Grin cartoon of Chris and Rexy stargazing beneath a crowded sky of imagined weaponized satellites and the International Space Station — Is That the ISS—or a Laser-Armed Satellite?
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Science With a Grin cartoon showing identical facts processed into contrasting news headlines while Chris and Rexy compare sources — Same Facts, Different Focus: The Media Bias Machine
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Science-and-labor satire contrasting Donald Trump’s Juneteenth complaint about non-working holidays with American workers’ lack of guaranteed paid vacation and holidays — Too Many Holidays?
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Science-policy cartoon about United States research cuts prompting scientists to seek funding and careers in Canada and Europe — America’s New Brain Drain
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Historical satire about President Grover Cleveland declaring Labor Day a federal holiday amid the violent 1894 Pullman Strike — Labor Day: A Holiday in a Hurry
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Science-humor cartoon contrasting the search for alien intelligence with automated license-plate surveillance — The Fermi-Flock Paradox
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Science-humor cartoon about recurring disagreements throughout human history — Human History: One Long Argument
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Satirical science-policy comic about research funding priorities — Another Day, Another Wasteful Priority
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Satirical science-policy comic about China’s quasi-moon mission and United States science cuts — Space Exploration vs. Science Cuts
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Science-humor comic about nuclear weapons, satellites and the Outer Space Treaty — The Cold War Just Got Colder
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Illustrated timeline tracing spirituality, organized religion, political power, secularization and scientific thought through human history — Human History: Religion, Power & Reason
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“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”

— Carl Sagan