#1520: Degree-Off

[[A gameshow setting. Three figures stand behind podiums labeled PHYS, BIO, and CHEM, in front of an announcer.]]

Announcer: Welcome to the DEGREE OFF, where we determine which field is the best! Physics, wanna go first?

Physics: Sure! I’d like to tell the story of Richard Feynman’s manhattan project lockpicking pranks..

Physics: ..and as he said “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” Thank you.

Announcer: Great! Bio, you wanna go next?

Biology: Okay.

[[A graph appears displaying numbers falling from eight hundred per one hundred thousand, to less than a hundred per one hundred thousand, over the last century.]]

Biology:This is a graph of the death rate from infectious disease in this country.

[[BIO raises fist emphatically]]

Biology: The heroes of my field have SLAIN one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

[[BIO points finger at PHYS]]

Biology: While the heroes of YOUR field gathered in the desert to create a new one.

Physics: …jeez, what the hell? I thought this was supposed to be fun and lighthearted!

Biology: YOU MUST HAVE BEEN THINKING OF STAMP COLLECTING.