I would guess that my only scholarly journal article has been read by a total of perha...  ...ers of my family. It's hard to get people to read scholarly articles, even in the natural sciences in which s...

(Avogadro take my number t-shirt on sale at the NeatoShop)Aside from ordinary compensation issues, such as paying rent and eating occasionally, scholars prioritize getting published and getting their published works cite...

(Photo: Shawnc)Emperor Akihito, like his father before him, is a scientist with a passion for studying marine life. Although he was never able to pursue a doctorate in the field, Akihito has continued his studies and res...

(Photo: USAID Africa Bureau)Did you fall and get a boo-boo? Let Mommy kiss it. Mommy kisses are super good at making you feel better, right?Wrong! My mother lied to me! And so did yours and everyone else's mothers! Accor...

(Image: Julius T. Csotonyi/Royal Tyrrell Museum)This may be a risky proposal approach, as it assumes that someone other than the editor and peer reviewers will actually read the article--especially the notes. But for pal...

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(Photo: Gustav Mårtensson)The men pictured above are researchers at Karolinska Institutet, a medical school in Sweden. For a decade, they've been locked in a fierce competition with each other. Their goal is to quo...

(Science vs. Magic t-shirt now on sale at the Neat...  ...e at the NeatoShop)2 years ago, we learned that a scholarly journal of mathematics had published an article t...

I've checked. It's real. And as soon as I've finished writing this post, I'm going to order through interlibrary loan the book containing this article. Peter McLaren and Janet Morris's essay on the Power Rangers' phalloc...