It's not one of mine, waiting to be completed.
It's not from a competitor, scooping my precious results.
It doesn't even have much impact on my own work.
No it's a paper I once printed, and have heard about from others. It sits on my cluttered desk staring at me every day, and I just simply refuse to read it. Like an old rival we glimpse at each other every day, I pretend to ignore and it pretends to ignore me ... but the more I refuse to admit it's existence, the more it impose itself on my subconscious.
(and now with a Nobel given to the field ... this is obviously an important paper - if you see thetitleyou'll understand why)
So what is the title of this mysterious paper?
(Hey Evil Gomez, maybe you can write something on this in ScienceSampler???)
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My philosophy has always been that printing a paper out and putting it in a pile on your desk is 95% as good as actually reading it.
Just carry it around in your bag for a few weeks, and the information contained therein will seep into your brain via your leg. Or back. Depending on what kind of bag you carry.
My method: print out a bunch of other papers and pile them on it. You will feel better (you will be refusing to tackle a daunting task, not a middle one), and the paper won't feel so lonely. By periodically adding new papers on the pile, you can also avoid the accumulation of visibly guilty dust.