Earlier this year, graduate students suddenly found themselves deprived of a major source of procrastination when updates of the Piled Higher and Deeper Comics suddenly reduced to trickles. The hiatus ...

The creator of the popular online comic strip "Piled Higher and Deeper" has turned it into a feature film. The PhD Movie, which opened this week at a handful of US universities, will be screened at ...

In the opening minutes of “Piled Higher and Deeper,” veteran graduate student Mike Slackenerny describes academia in a nutshell to a bright-eyed, eager new graduate student during orientation: “It’s ...

The second part of the PhD comic strip I mentioned yesterday is out, and lots of astrobloggers are linking to it. But no one seems to have noticed the glaring error ...

In the process of writing this review, I accomplished a decent amount of procrastination including, among other things, some serious browsing of the Piled Higher and Deeper (PHD) comic-strip archive.

Why turn the comic strip into a movie? The spark was a spoof of a Lady Gaga video put together by some scientists in Texas. It looked like so much fun. But a lot of things were pointing in that ...