This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Cosplay coral-ation — Getting anyone, anyone at all, to notice what you have discovered is a problem for almost every scientist. (It’s a problem also for almost anyone anywhere who discovers almost anything.) Mark […]
This week’s Ambiguous Paper Title is: “Coffee and heart failure: A further potential beneficial effect of coffee,” Anna Vittoria Mattioli and Alberto Farinetti, Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 2023.
A careful choice of words can perhaps prevent a tragedy. Here’s an example. A minority of human cannibals might become overexcited when they see the title of this study: “Trends in Dietary Quality Among Adults in the United States, 1999 Through 2010,” Dong D. Wang, Cindy W. Leung, Yanping Li, Eric L. Ding, Stephanie E. […]
Tom Gill sent this to us, with the suggestion “Why can’t more scientific papers have evocative, poetic titles like this? I mean, it sounds more like a song than a technical article.” The study is: “The Strength of the Evening Wind,” A. Lapworth, Boundary-Layer Meteorology, vol. 183, 2022, pp. 215–225.
