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Research paper subtext

Funnybone: January 25, 2010
It has long been known that… (I didn’t have time to look it up.) It seems of great practical and theoretical importance… (Could be kinda interesting) While it was not possible to answer… (The experiment failed.) The XYZ system was chosen as especially suitable… (The guy in the next lab already had the setup.)
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Long tern paper

Funnybone: January 18, 2010
Terns have been in the news lately – they’re the champs of long distance migrating. So research about terns is not likely to win any “Ig Nobel Prizes.” There once was an undergrad biology student who was studying the coordinated flight patterns of sea birds, focusing specifically on terns. For his research paper, he proposed [...]
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