A new entry in the best title ever competition: arXiv:0804.2162, "The secret world of shrimps: polarisation vision at its best", by Sonja Kleinlogel and Andrew G. White. Secret lives of shrimp? That sounds more like an expose on the secret...
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Posted on April 24, 2008 11:41 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Today, I looked on the arxiv and found arXiv:0804.0272:arXiv:0804.0272 Quantum computing using shortcuts through higher dimensions Authors: B. P. Lanyon, M. Barbieri, M. P. Almeida, T. Jennewein, T. C. Ralph, K. J. Resch, G. J. Pryde, J. L. O'Brien, A....
Posted on April 3, 2008 1:50 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Another checkmark in front of the "antrhopic reasoning is whack": arXiv:0802.4121 Title: Ants are not Conscious Authors: Russell K. Standish Anthropic reasoning is a form of statistical reasoning based upon finding oneself a member of a particular reference class of...
Posted on February 29, 2008 1:15 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
One of the funniest abstracts to a paper on the arxiv in many moons appeared yesterday, authored by Carlos Mochon: arXiv:0711.4114 Title: Quantum weak coin flipping with arbitrarily small bias Authors: Carlos Mochon "God does not play dice. He flips...
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Posted on November 29, 2007 12:30 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Many of you know I'm a big fan of funny/creative paper titles. What with journal editors squashing every last ounce of humanity our of scientific papers, it always makes me happy to see someone else fighting the editorial machine. Today...
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Posted on November 8, 2007 6:51 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions