Something doesn’t add up, as they say, with the Rhine River. Earth Times reports: Reports of Rhine’s length exaggerated and erroneous, academic finds Cologne, Germany – Most of the world’s encyclopaedias and textbooks are misstating the length of Europe’s Rhine river after somebody accidentally added 90 kilometres about half a century ago, an observant academic […]
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A cute/acute thing in Pubmed
Certain typographical errors are especially likely to creep into medical databases. These entries in the PubMed database may demonstrate the principle. A cute poisoning. A survey of 516 cases. CUMMING G., Practitioner. 1960 Apr;184:481-7. No abstract available. PMID: 13813276 A cute pancreatitis in the upper age groups. HOFFMAN E, PEREZ E, SOMERA V., Gastroenterology. 1959 […]
How many wronged or wrong co-authors
A quick math adventure: Estimate the number of co-authors in this publication (“Erratum to ‘Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger observatory‘”, Astroparticle Physics, vol. 32, no. 2, 2009, pp. 89–99. Thanks to investigator Adrian Smith for bringing it to our attention.) If you want to do […]