Jean Berko Gleason, known to some as the Welcome Welcome Lecturer at the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, is known to even more — lots more — people as the creator of the Wug Test. The Secret Life of Scientists takes a look:
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How not to get your article published
We received this cover letter, which accompanied a lengthy article written in Russian. We have blotted out the author’s name (which may be overkill, because it was illegible). When a magazine is published entirely in one language (our magazine happens to be in English), submissions written in other languages may be at a disadvantage. In […]
Sexy, in a word (in a title)
Investigator Sarah Keedy asks: This article has the term “Sexy” in the title which is utterly not borne out whatsoever in the text (except maybe to people who really care about this topic, of whom I am not one), nor is the term FOUND anywhere else in the text, suggesting it is not even a […]
How to speak English, w tension
Lesson 1 of the Spoken English Online System delivers 4 minutes and 33 seconds of dramatic tension (Thanks to Damaris Cummins for bringing it to our attention). What, the viewer almost cannot help but constantly (and thanks to the music, throbbingly) wonder, will happen next — or at all?