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Jorge Cham

Born

in Panama

May 01, 1976

Website

http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/~jgcham/

Genre

Comics & Graphic Novels

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Jorge Cham is a Chinese-Panamanian post-doc best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD Comics). He first started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University, and has since been syndicated in several university newspapers and in three published book collections.

Jorge Cham received his Bachelor's degree from Georgia Tech in 1997, and earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford. He subsequently worked at Caltech as an instructor and as a researcher on neural prosthetics.

In 2005, Cham began an invited speaking tour of over 80 major universities delivering his talk titled "The Power of Procrastination". In this lecture, Cham talks about his experiences creating the comic str ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 10,251 ratings · 1,442 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe 4.28 avg rating — 6,866 ratings — published 2017 — 52 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frequently Asked Questions about the Universe by Jorge Cham, Daniel Whiteson 4.06 avg rating — 1,088 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection 4.21 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PhD Chapter 2: Life is Tough and Then You Graduate 4.35 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oliver's Great Big Universe 4.18 avg rating — 256 ratings — published 2024 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PhD Chapter 3: Scooped! 4.41 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PhD Chapter 4: Academic Stimulus Package 4.33 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Your Mind: The Biggest Mysteries of the Human Brain by Jorge Cham, Dwayne Godwin 4.25 avg rating — 154 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PhD Chapter 5: Adventures in Thesisland 4.42 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oliver's Great Big Universe: Volcanoes Are Hot! (Oliver's Great Big Universe, #2) 4.25 avg rating — 68 ratings — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Piled Higher and Deeper (6 books)
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Oliver's Great Big Universe (3 books)
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“Mass is the property of objects that makes them resist changes in velocity. Simply”
― Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

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“Yes, those ten-billion-dollar twenty-seven-kilometer-long machines are good for more than just finding bosons named after Peter Higgs.”
― Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

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“A single gram of antiparticles combined with a gram of normal particles would release more than 40 kilotonnes of explosive force, which is more than twice as powerful as the atomic bombs dropped by the United States in WWII. A normal household raisin weighs about a gram, so a raisin plus anti-raisin combination would be a dehydrated weapon of mass fruitation.”
― Jorge Cham, We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe

tags: humour, science

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