Very short abstract
October 16, 2011 by Prof. David M. Schultz
Filed under Blog, Humor
From arXiv.org: Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement? M. V. Berry, N. Brunner, S. Popescu, P. Shukla (Submitted on 13 Oct 2011) Abstract Probably not. [Thanks to Dan Housley for pointing this out.]
Who wrote the first abstract in a scientific journal article?
October 6, 2010 by Prof. David M. Schultz
Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri
I have often wondered how we came to the modern scientific article. One question that I had that I researched, but was unable to turn up anything on was who started the boldface and italics in the reference format for journal volume number and journal name (varies by discipline and by journal). One question that … read more