Fun with self-reference....
I've long thought that "self-reference" and "recursion" are among the most important topics out there (and I'm in good company, since they've been central to a lot of Douglas Hofstadter's work ;-). They straddle, in crucial ways, the fields of linguistics/cognitive science and math/logic. So I was delighted this week to see Ben Orlin do his humorous take on self-reference (and even Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem) and chop it down to size:
http://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/02/10/faqs-about-self-reference/comment-page-1/
So much fun! ...but Ben is not the only funny one... surfing around, I found this page of self-reference jokes/humor:
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/selfref.html
And Alexander Bogomolny also has an entertaining page of examples:
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/selfreference/
...and then there's always this xkcd classic:
...Lastly, always remember that, "All generalizations are false, including this one" (Mark Twain).
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