Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 09, 2014

Both Mia and Alex are going back to work. Does this mean the redhead can be the new babysitter?-http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2013/12/04#.UvcV43i9Kc0

Is she driving a 1968 Volvo 122?

I’m still not convinced about Alex’s postdoc, they usually pay less than MacDonald’s!

Is it just me or dose the artwork in the final frame look off somehow?

Llywus42: Haven’t you noticed? From Day 1, GT has changed inanimate stuff in the background, like how books are stacked.

No, something is definitely different about the look of this strip. I’m wondering if it was inked by someone other than Don Carlton, who’s been Garry Trudeau’s inker since 1971.

I thought at first it was a Volvo 544 but it’s not. Alex’s car has 4 doors, rear are suicide. The 544 was 2-door only, ceased production after 1966.

The clock on the wall isn’t a clock, it’s a golden record.

@JP SteveYou’re right and that’s not all. I worked a salary position at a department at a med. school at a world known u. I had had two years college with no degree and was making $200/year more than a postdoc. I was at my job 40hrs/wk, 5 days/wk. The postdocs spent 10-12 hrs/day, 6 or 7 days/wk at their jobs. I guess their motivations are their aspirations and the love of their field of study.

If you look carefully. you’ll see the car in the first frame is significantly (and intentionally) different from the one in the 2nd. (Color’s the same, but the shapes and lines are changed.) Neither one looks terribly much like a specific real one I can recall, going back to the 70’s, anyway.

Besides, the early smaller Volvos were rather notorious for looking like completely different cars from different angles, so it’s pretty easy to imagine that almost any random car-like shape resembles one.

My presence is more valuable than your tender moment. I’m B-Yo yo!.

Stop wasting tax dollars on pointless research. If its worth doing, private industry will fund it.

Mercury made a car with suicide doors in the late 40’s. Closest thing I know of

But private industry has no honor, is not concerned with consequences and is not above falsifying data. Much of what private industry funds are the results of such “pointless” research.

Yay!!! Plight of young people who can’t find the jobs they deserve still exists, but glad these guys are getting a break.

Working for big name, big bucks 1% artistsGetting big bucks grantsIf only Zonker were here to guide the chillunsAll would be right with the universe

@DavidHuieGreenTrue, and to support what you say, the Univ. of Mich. revoked the masters degree, about 30 years ago, of a mineralogist who claimed to have discovered an unknown mineral in its natural state. He named it texasite after his native state. The irony: the guy’s name is W. W. Crook III. I can imagine his insisting, “I’m not a Nixon, I’m not a Nixon.”

Private funding in part to universities does occur when there’s promise of development. I can well imagine those corporate scientists are paid more than their academic counterparts, particularly the postdocs, so why not fund the research, it makes sense.

My choice of the word, “honor” comes with how the fictional Lt. Worf employs it. Please remember, corporations are rarely effectively punished and their leaders are seldom jailed in the types of jails I would go to.

absolutely nothing. That’s why Alex is nervous.

It’s the rear car door handle that gets me. Wrong side!

I’m sure the strip can’t get every detail as 100% accurate. Overall, it is beautifully drawn. Even movies don’t have every detail 100% accurate, which would seem easier to manage than drawings.

Differences between the 7th and last panel:1- there are 5 cds or tape boxes stacked on the top shelf in the 7th panel, 4 in the last panel.2- the top is yellow in color in the 7th panel, blue in the last panel.3- The cd or 4- the cup on the shelf has 3 stripes in the 7th pane, 2 in the last panel.5- The cds or tapes are more tightly packed in the 7th panel than they are in the last panel.6- Alex’s hair, along with her eyes, change in the last panel to give her a more girlish look.

Paper tacked right next to the platinum record in 3, 4, and 6 is missing in 8. And no, it’s not behind Alex’ head, too far to the right to cover it.

Sorry, missing in 7 and 8.

Hurry up, guys! Beyonce has some more disaster survivors to exploit!

http://web.mit.edu/IR/surveys/pdf/Postdoctoral_Life_at_MIT_Report_June_2011.pdf

Looks like both mean and median post-doc earms about 45000, and health insurance.

And Alex, with her major and being from MIT, would get much more than the mean.