Oh, woe. My latest oeuvre has been rejected outright by the journal I submitted it to. This is my first real rejection. The first paper I wrote was accepted almost without change in a pretty good journal. My second paper, in perhaps the number two journal in the field of fluid mechanics required a bit [...]
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The September 2007 edition of Physics World, the in-house magazine of the Institute of Physics, featured an article by Joanne Brunker entitled “Physglish: our coded speech”. This was one of a series of short essays under the heading “Lateral Thoughts”, essays supposed to be a bit fun and to provoke some thinking in the [...]
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