Looking for funny abstract paper [Archive]

PoyDuo

Oct27-11, 07:50 AM

I'm trying to look for papers with funny abstracts (in particular, there is one I saw a while ago, I believe it was physics, that had an abstract that only said no which I am trying to find, but I would love to see other funny one as well.)

Gokul43201

Oct27-11, 08:29 AM

http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2832

For another, try this: http://iopscience.iop.org/0953-8984/20/2/021001;jsessionid=61634341206E4A41C5BC4620C60A6A3F .c3

Norman

Oct27-11, 08:35 AM

Abstracts:
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1110/1110.2832.pdf
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1053
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612388
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4114

Funny Titles:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3989
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211152
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9908205
http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.0965
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9902246
http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2003v2
http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2589
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603053

Read the comments on this one:
http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0208018v2

Norman

Oct27-11, 08:37 AM

Also this one:
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0201080

PAllen

Oct27-11, 09:00 AM

Eva Silverstein can't be left out (titles):

http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0756
http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4521
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5403
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1061
http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3922 (now if only she could write a paper on P-branes)
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0506130
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502021
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403001
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709209
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9503150

Norman

Oct27-11, 09:06 AM

Eva Silverstein can't be left out (titles):

http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0756
http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4521
http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5403
http://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1061
http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3922 (now if only she could write a paper on P-branes)
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0506130
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0502021
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0403001
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9709209
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9503150

Those are great PAllen!

Andy Resnick

Oct27-11, 09:08 AM

http://www.jir.com/index.html

Ygggdrasil

Oct27-11, 10:30 AM

Chemistry journals often publish graphical abstracts accompanying the actual text of the abstract. Sometimes these images have unintended meanings:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic0352250
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl802977m

This one suffers from an unfortunate choice of acronym for copper nanotubes (see the image):

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2007/CC/b614147a

Norman

Oct27-11, 12:03 PM

Chemistry journals often publish graphical abstracts accompanying the actual text of the abstract. Sometimes these images have unintended meanings:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ic0352250
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl802977m

This one suffers from an unfortunate choice of acronym for copper nanotubes (see the image):

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2007/CC/b614147a

Those were a big hit with all my fellow postdocs.

PAllen

Oct27-11, 01:28 PM

Gotta add one more Silverstein title:

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0209226

PAllen

Oct27-11, 02:05 PM

http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702069

micromass

Oct27-11, 02:10 PM

Here are some funny math titles: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/44326/most-memorable-titles

fourier jr

Oct27-11, 02:30 PM

I'm trying to look for papers with funny abstracts (in particular, there is one I saw a while ago, I believe it was physics, that had an abstract that only said no which I am trying to find, but I would love to see other funny one as well.)

are you thinking of this thread?
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=540623