For a physicist, he sure had a great sense of humor. Science is, after all, a dry, academic, humorless discipline, a realm of facts and figures and dangerous exploding chemicals. It's a solemn business. Scientists, the chosen acolytes of the scientific flame, tend to be sober-minded people. Like nuns and DMV workers, they have little tolerance for tomfoolery or unrestrained silliness.
Scientists are the ones trying to solve the problems no one else can figure out.
If you don't keep a sense of humor about it, you'll be miserable. We should not doubt him. Staffed by writers trained in the scientific method and possessed of a wicked sense of irony, AIR is, in part, a conscious attempt to make science more inviting to an intimidated world at large. To that end, Abrahams and company scour academic journals in search of stories that reveal the wacky, eccentric underbelly of the scientific process. It certainly stands as proof positive that scientists do indeed have a sense of humor.