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Several days ago the publication Virology Journal published an article entitled “Influenza or not influenza: Analysis of a case of high fever that happened 2000 years ago in Biblical time” which attempts to establish that the mother-in-law of Simon Peter in fact had influenza. Needless to say, the scientific blogging community was immediately outraged at this nonsense, and the paper is going to be deleted soon. Catch it while you can.

My favorite sentence: “The authors note that Luke did not quantify the fever as the Fahrenheit temperature scale was not invented until 1724.”

Make your own academic sentence!

The reification of history as such opens a space for the ideology of the gendered body.

Well, duh..

My new favorite book: The Effects of Human Age, Group Composition, and Behavior on the Likelihood of Being Injured by Attacking Pumas. That’s a long way of saying that when you’re attacked by a mountain lion, run!

For you have taken the following set of principles too closely to heart: How to write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature.

I cracked up reading this one. Some graduate students at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a random computer science research paper generator. You just plug in some author’s names, and presto, you’re ready to submit a paper to the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics Conference. Feel free to check out my latest project: “Ambimorphic Epistemologies for a* Search”