Apparently standards required of a scientific paper for it to be published are not always as high as they might be.
[URL]http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/math-paper-retracted-because-it-contains-no-scientific-content/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Brian-E;296793]Apparently standards required of a scientific paper for it to be published are not always as high as they might be.
[URL]http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/math-paper-retracted-because-it-contains-no-scientific-content/[/URL][/QUOTE]

Tremendous! Thanks for posting that one.

Norm

[QUOTE=Brian-E;296793]Apparently standards required of a scientific paper for it to be published are not always as high as they might be.
[URL]http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/math-paper-retracted-because-it-contains-no-scientific-content/[/URL][/QUOTE]Beautiful!


I particularly liked this snippet from subsequent feedback: [i]Well… I’m not a mathematician, but ‘Mahalingam College’ is the sanskrit equivalent of what in Monty Python’s Latin would be Biggus Dickus… So they probably have other names and whereabouts.[/i]

Although my knowledge of Sanskrit is rather rudimentary, I can confirm the analysis. The element "maha" is common throughout Indo-European languages. Compare it with "major" in English, Latin and German --- though the pronunciation in the last two is closer to that of the word in Sanskrit than the French-influenced English version.

Paul

[URL]http://english.bouletcorp.com/2012/04/23/mechanic-fantasy/[/URL] a comic about dark matter

[url]http://xkcd.com/1047/[/url]
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny"]"Jenny's constant"[/URL]
[quote]Two tips: 1) 8675309 is not just prime, it's a twin prime, and 2) if you ever find yourself raising log(anything)^e or taking the pi-th root of anything, set down the marker and back away from the whiteboard; something has gone horribly wrong.[/quote]
The [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime"]twin prime Wikipedia article[/URL] has now been edited. [quote]Some examples of twin prime pairs are (3, 5), (5, 7), (11, 13), (17, 19), (29, 31) and (8675309, 8675311).[/quote]

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[QUOTE=firejuggler;298087][youtube]gmlR5eG9zP4[/youtube][/QUOTE]

Now someone needs to combine the "I love you" dog with some lambs saying "Yeah" to reproduce the Beatles smash hit...

[url]http://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/chickenroad.html[/url]
[url]http://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/limericks.html[/url]

It's good to see that members of the public are having their say in Lincoln, Nebraska, about proposed anti-discrimination legislation.
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[QUOTE=Dubslow;298754][URL]http://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/chickenroad.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.physics.harvard.edu/academics/undergrad/limericks.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
LOL :lol:

But have you ever introduced schoolgirls to "Kundt's Tube"?

[QUOTE=davieddy;299234]But have you ever introduced schoolgirls to "Kundt's Tube"?[/QUOTE]

:no:

Regardless of your pun, that was extremely tasteless.