August 2007
5 posts
Annals of Absurdies in Plaigiarism
Hans Werner Gottinger has been exposed by science policy expert Ben Martin as having copied verbatim whole paragraphs from other authors, apparently bamboozling his peer-reviewers with the (apparently uncommon) use of mathematical equations in his social science articles. In his publications, he also has been lying outright about his credentials, saying that he is affiliated with a university to...
Horray Jebediah Springfield!
NewsNature 448, 632 (9 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448632a; Published online 8 August 2007SidelinesWordwatch Embiggen In a case of theoretical physics imitating art, ‘embiggen’, first coined by The Simpsons character Jebediah Springfield, has now been used in a paper on string theory by Stanford University’s Shamit Kachru. In case you need a definition, it means ‘to grow...
Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful -PNAS →
July 2007
2 posts
Pseudomamma!!! →
A glimpse into my sleepytime universe
Time: 3:15 AM
A: my brother doesn't have enough room for the DC walnut, so he's petitioning me to store it over the weekend
K: (between giggles) Are you going to?
A: I dunno ... I think I'll have a cruiser by then.
May 2007
5 posts
I laughed but then I felt bad.
Decode my cryptic new language.
5y8w oqht7qt3 294iw g6 wy8r58ht 6974 r8ht34w h945y 9r 5y3 y9j3 492l Hint: It’s a lot easier to produce than to decode.
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Hello World! I’ll be posting stuff that catches my attention.