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[leobloom]

So where's the crossword puzzle?

[galactic_hedgehog]

So where's the crossword puzzle?

How 'bout an advice column?

Dear Nature,

I am attracted to my postdoc advisor, but she doesn't seem to know I exist?  All she's interested in are my results.  How can I show her that I care deeply, deeply about her statistical models?

[taxidea]

Announcing the newest journal in the Nature family, Nature Cosmo!


Open doors with stylish closed-toe shoes!

White after Labor Day: It's not just for lab coats anymore!

Hottest Places to Do "It" in the Lab (and we don't mean PCR!)!

[jackofallchem]

What the...??  Really Nature?  Really?

I remember what it took to get published in Nature.  I remember how the boss considered it the crowning achievement of his career to get a chemistry article published there.  Now, you publish tripe like this?  Who thought this was funny?  Is there anyone in your office under 60?  What's next, publishing the best of Dave Barry?

That settles it for me, Science.  Science must be the best science journal in the world.  Nature now comes after JACS.

[systeme_d_]

I agree with someone upthread that Paul Anderson's comment was spot-on.

Here's another terrific comment:

2011-11-20 10:05 AM

MaryAnn Johanson said:

People! Clearly, you are all missing the point.

Obviously, the story is about how men are utterly unqualified to be scientists. If men are such terrible observers of their surroundings as to be looking for girls' knickers in the frozen-fish section, and are unable to find the store directory that points them toward Children's Clothing, they are de facto unable to perform the most basic requirements of science.

What's more, the story's very presence on this web site suggests, men are proud of their lack of observation skills, and of the very basic sort of common sense that any scientist should be operating under.

I look forward to Nature refusing to accept any work from male scientists — and refusing to countenance any work by male scientists — unless or until it has been vetted by clearly more competent and organized female scientists.

We should applaud the author's courage in outing male ineptitude so baldly.

I, for one, welcome our new female overlords.

[idspike]

That settles it for me, Science.  Science must be the best science journal in the world.  Nature now comes after JACS.

A colleague of mine says that Science is for publishing speculative stuff that's probably right, and Nature is for publishing speculative stuff that's probably wrong.