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Older workers bring valuable knowledge to the job: Sure they bring other things too: incomprehensible jokes, sensible shoes, the last working Walkman in captivity. But according to a study in the ...
See 30 examples of paper titles with a sense of humor, shared by academics and researchers on Twitter. Learn why some scientists use puns, jokes, and creative language to grab readers' attention and appeal to a wider audience.
The "booty call": a compromise between men's and women's ideal mating strategies.(The Journal of Sex Research) Intermittent access to beer promotes binge-like drinking in adolescent but not adult ...
From ovulation and tip earnings to wet underwear and woodpeckers, these are some of the strangest research topics ever studied. Find out how scientists explored the limits of human and animal behavior, biology and psychology in these hilarious and surprising papers.
When it's time to publish their research, many scientists try to get clever with their article titles, presumably to make their work seem more fun and interesting.
From potty training cows to star-eat-star supernovas, discover the most fascinating and surprising science discoveries of the year. Learn about fusion, xenobots, brain mapping, quasicrystals and more.
If you are looking for some funny research articles, check out these pun-filled paper titles that made scientists laugh. From "Fantastic yeasts and where to find them" to "Snakes on a spaceship", these titles prove that academic writing can be witty and creative.
A researcher of the study courageously jumping with an empty backpack. Picture taken from Yeh et al, 2018. Reproduced from the Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms ...
Academic humour in published papers can take different forms, but funny titles are one of the best. We recall some of the best titles published in physics over the years.
From goldfish driving cars to octopuses throwing silt, here are the top ten weird science stories of 2022. Discover how scientists explored the boundaries of biology, technology, psychology and ...
The infamous "Get Me Off Your F--king Mailing List" paper, that was submitted to the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, sometime in July 2005 by two dudes who really wanted to get their point across to the "International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology".
The ultimate action-packed science and technology magazine bursting with exciting information about the universe; Subscribe today and save an extra 5% with checkout code 'LOVE5'
The funniest with good research methods: the teaspoon paper. God, I love that paper (my current institute is dominated by coffee drinkers, so our limiting silverware reagent is forks...time for a followup study?). The funniest "how did this crank get published": the velvet worm hybridogenesis paper that led PNAS to change their editorial policy.
A study suggests that papers with humorous titles are cited more than serious ones, after controlling for self-citations as a measure of importance. However, some researchers challenge the ...
Fueled by unquenchable curiosity, some scientists embark on studies that appear to be ridiculous, obvious, or insignificant. These scientists often face criticism and mockery from inside and outside the scientific community. However, if you look closely, this seemingly wacky research is also meaningful and even provocative. 10 Fruit Bats Love ...
8 Brilliantly Funny Academic Paper Titles. Chi| Jun 01, 2022. Writing research and academic papers takes a lot of time and effort, but who said that academic papers have to be dull? A little humor or clever pun can go a long way to grabbing the reader's attention or creating buzz around your paper. So, live a little!
After controlling for self-citations as a measure of a paper's importance, the team found that articles with funny titles are in fact cited more than those with serious titles (see 'Amusing ...
At the same time, she stresses that articles for the holiday issue go through the same full peer review process that every other BMJ research article undergoes, which involves one of the journal's ...
Anna Wilkinson of the University of Lincoln in the UK trained a red-footed tortoise to yawn in order to research social cognition in tortoises. Over the course of six months in 2011, Wilkinson and ...
Scientists grew brain organoids with optic cups. (Image credit: Elke Gabriel) In August, a group of scientists made news that was equal parts fascinating and horrifying when they announced they ...
This article was originally published with the title " What's So Funny? The Science of Why We Laugh " in SA Mind Vol. 30 No. 5 ( September 2019 ) , p. 18 doi: 10.1038/scientificamericanmind0919-18
Humour can boost employee performance, stress-coping and group cohesion in the workplace, including the lab. Learn how jokes, pranks and comics can lighten up life in the lab and foster creativity ...
Learn how laughter and humor are universal, evolutionary, and social phenomena that reveal a lot about human psychology. Explore the research on the language, neuroscience, and perception of laughter and humor across cultures and contexts.