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Congratulations to ScienceDaily for this, um, baffling introduction:
“Cornell researchers are studying bacterium big enough to see — the Shaquille O’Neal of bacteria. Well, perhaps not quite Shaquille O’Neal. But it is Shaq-teria.“
Uh. ok. Anyway, they’re reporting on this paper: “Extreme polyploidy in a large bacterium“, which does sound interesting, and really didn’t deserve that pun. [...]
Written October 31, 2007 in SSTA, humor, neuroscience, psychology, quotes, science, stupidity
Here’s a new occasional segment that I’m going to run on Henry: The Stupid Science Terminology Award. This week, the award goes to the National Geographic News, for inflicting upon us the nausea-inducing term “brainbow”:
In their effort to tease out the details of connections in the nervous system, Lichtman and his colleagues developed about [...]
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