This week’s Awkwardly Worded Study Title is: “Use of Pepto-Bismol in Diarrhea,” W.F. Arndt, Jr. and J.M. Burna, Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 100, no. 5, May 1982, p. 839. Congratulations to the authors, or to the editor, who wrote the title.
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“Q”. Just Q. That’s the whole title. Plus other terse titles.
This paper qualifies in the competition, if there is one, for Research Paper with the Shortest Title. The paper is: “Q“, by Leon Knopoff [pictured here], Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 2, no. 4, 1964, pp. 625-660. The author, at the Department of Physics and Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, begins: […]
Children’s book to come: “Anolis Annectens, The Retrograde Anole”
Children’s books, by tradition, have the best titles. This title, on a blog post, begs us to beg its author (Jonathan Losos) to write an entire children’s book on the topic: Anolis Annectens, The Retrograde Anole (Thanks to @BoraZ for bringing this title to our attention.)
The title translates awkwardly: Piano Music from Tropical Fish
Sometimes a study’s title translates awkwardly from one language into another. Here is such a case, with Chinese making an awkward transition into English: “On The Creation Of Piano Music For Children From Tropical Fish By Zhao Xi,” Jing Zhang, Huangzhong-Journal of Wuhan Music Conservatory, January 2003. “The paper show the writer’s opinions on creation […]