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Can Scientists Dance? -- Bohannon 319 (5865): 905b -- Science A contest to see who could do the best interpretive dance based on their Ph.D. thesis. (tags: academia music science video silly) Conservatives Just Aren't Into Academe, Study Finds - Chronicle.com "Conservative students, however,…
Quantum Hoops We're still not sure whether they won or lost. (tags: basketball academia sports physics movies) slacktivist: King and Huck The difference between the religious language of Martin Luther King and Mike Huckabee. (tags: religion politics US society culture) Coping With the Crunch…
birds are gross - rosemary mosco The awesome turkey vulture. (tags: comics biology science silly) nanoscale views: Combined single-molecule electronics and optics "The two-sentence summary: we can do simultaneous electronic and optical measurements on single molecules (!) by using our…
Beer Batter Is Better: Scientific American "If you've ever sat down at a pub to a plate of really good fish and chips--the kind in which the fish stays tender and juicy but the crust is supercrisp--odds are that the cook used beer as the main liquid when making the batter. Beer makes such a great…

A good rule of thumb is that when a paper title asks a question the answer is "no."

In particle physics, at least, this is known as "Hinchliffe's Rule", which led someone to write the paper "Is Hinchliffe's Rule True?"