This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Diet of worms? — The phrase “diet of worms” intrigues people (if it intrigues them at all) in various ways. For historians, it can trigger arguments about a political convocation that happened in the city of […]
Ig Nobel Prize winner Ray Goldstein is receiving compliments for his newly published biophysics paper—because the paper’s entire abstract is one (1) word in length. The New Paper The paper is: “Are Theoretical Results ‘Results’?” Raymond E. Goldstein, eLife, vol. 7, no. e40018, 2018. The abstract reads, in its entirety: Yes. Goldstein is in the […]
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, […]
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: […]
