Rolf Zwaan (co-author of the Ig Nobel Prize winning study “Leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller: Posture-modulated thought“) is blogging about at amusing titles given to scholarly studies. He looks especially at his own field: I culled amusing titles from the 2003-2012 issues of Psych Science. It was not always easy to […]
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Non-Newtonian sink flow cusps self-quibble
“Instead of in general in particular it should say in particular. Instead of sharp cusps it should say non-axisymmetryc cusps.” So say authors of the study Non-Newtonian sink flow cusps Authors: Diego Samano, Roberto Zenit arXiv:0910.3269 BONUS QUESTION: Did they commit a spelling error with the word “axisymmetryc”?
Engineering: Taking Advantage of the Promiscuous One
Promiscuity appeals to chemical engineers, under certain circumstances. One set of those circumstances is described in the paper: “Engineering Sialidase Specificity: Taking Advantage of the Promiscuous One,” J.N. Watson, A.J. Bennet, presented at the 23rd International Carboyhdrate Symposium, held in Whistler, BC, Canada, July 23-28, 2006. The authors are at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.
How he reads a table of numbers
Peter Freed, feeling provoked, muses about how he reads a science paper (and in this passage, how he reads a table in a science paper): Now listen: most non-scientists see a table like this and freak out. They take around 3 seconds to decide they can’t understand it, get scared of feeling stupid in the face […]