Much confusion arose as to what a thing was. Marc Furió and colleagues did some detective work, then reported what they think they found out: “No place for Pliocene tourists with Ockham’s razor in the pocket: Comment on Crespo et al. [doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2023.03.006] (2023),” Marc Furió, Raef Minwer-Barakat, and Antonio García-Alix, Palaeoworld, vol. 33, no. 6, […]
Non-specialists sometimes are confused by the titles of research papers. This study about goats is a particular problem for some non-goat readers: “The impact of diet on the quality of fresh meat and smoked ham in goat,” Snezana Ivanovic, Ksenija Nesic, Boris Pisinov, and Ivan Pavlovic, Small Ruminant Research, vol. 138, May 2016, pp. 53-59. […]
When it comes to designing icons for the operation of household equipment, care must be taken to avoid misunderstandings. “If the right button is pushed, the desired function will be performed. If the wrong button is pushed, an unexpected function will be performed. It might cause the user’s body or mental state of unwell even […]
In this video, members of the American Library Association (ALA) try to remember or figure out what some of the ALA’s acronyms might mean. The video is called “Wheel of Confusion”: