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Tag: long

A ritual monster of Spain has a long abstract

August 16, 2015 Marc Abrahams

A scholarly paper about a ritual monster of Spain appears to have a monstrously loooooooooong abstract, which you can see if you click the link on the title: “Tarasca: ritual monster of Spain,” David D. Gilmore, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 152, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 362-82. The author is at Stony brook University.

Arts and Scienceabstract, long, monster, Spain, summary

Short essays – are they long?

January 12, 2015 Martin Gardiner

When it comes to student essays, is a very short essay short because it’s short, or is it short because it’s shorter than a long one? Dr Simon Bell, Ph.D., M.A., Pg.Dip., Pg.Cert., B.A (Hons), who is Course Director and Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK, […]

Arts and Scienceessay, graphics, long, Mark Twain, short, square

For infinitely-long-frozen-seal fans

March 7, 2013 Marc Abrahams

Want to understand infinitely long frozen seals?  A fairly good place to start is the classic study: “ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF THE FROZEN SEAL,” J.F. Bailey, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 12, 1957. The report explains that: “As a result of a theoretical analysis of an infinitely long frozen seal, an equation has been derived […]

Research Newsfrozen seal, infinite, long, seal
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