C'mon you've all seen them. Here's one I just spotted in the most recent issue of Molecular Cell:
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Block, SM. "Fifty ways to love your lever: myosin motors." Cell 87:151-157 (1996).
Tried submitting this last night but it didn't go through; I'll try it again today without the direct links. Alex, if you're just behind on moderation and this is a duplicate, feel free to delete it.
Two of my personal all-time favorite review titles:
* A perfect vulva every time: gradients and signaling cascades in C. elegans. (C. Kenyon)
* The murmur of old broken heartstrings (J. Tower).
Review titles are a great opportunity for creativity; I think there should be a contest, including a category for great titles without any data to support them. I thought of one recently (curiously, also relating to fork head transcription factors):
"FOXO knows many things, but sonic hedgehog knows one big thing"
:-)
CP,
Yeah once you start adding URLs the Sciborg spam filter goes haywire. Cynthia has some vulva authoring a title like that!
Till disassembly do us part: a happy marriage of nuclear envelope and chromatin.
Tsuchiya Y
Biochem J (2008) 143(2):155-61
My own personal favorite (and one I gave my boss) is "Can you adhere me now? Good." on yeast adherence proteins.
I hate those. They are so kitsch.
It's like a joke repeated 1000 times. When it was new and original - OK. But that was couple decades ago. Now, seeing as everyone around me TRYING HARD to come with these for the reviews and talk titles - that's just stupid and not amusing anymore. Titles, just like the rest of the scientific papers, should carry *information*. The stuff like
"The murmur of old broken heartstrings" carries absolutely none of it.
I recently attended a talk that had a protein name in the title. Well, the lecture did not *mention* the protein! It was there because it made for a cute title that referenced relatively recent movie. IMHO, that's just retarded.