Jorge Cham, creator of the cult comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper, or PHD, is probably the most gut-achingly funny/tragic counsellor you could recommend to a PhD student -- or to any confounded ...

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 ...

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

PhD Comics has long been a great quick digital diversion for academics (and particularly graduate students) in need of a little self-parody. However, as it has aged the comic has also provided a ...

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 ...

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 ...

... Canary Islands, that is (named after dogs, not birds). Anyway, PhD comics has a semi-funny (chuckle-worthy, I suppose) panel on the artist's recent trip to the ...

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 ...