{"id":498587,"date":"2010-04-01T00:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=4457"},"modified":"2010-04-01T00:32:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:32:05","slug":"fooling-with-the-literature-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/498587","title":{"rendered":"Fooling with the Literature | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another round of diverting April Fool&#8217;s submissions to the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/xxx.lanl.gov\/archive\/astro-ph\">ArXiV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can you spot the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/xxx.lanl.gov\/list\/astro-ph\/new\">astro-ph<\/a> paper containing the following?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Calculation of the new figure of merit entails calculating elliptic integrals of the second kind, which makes the method more scientific;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If it helps, it&#8217;s the same paper which refers to:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lorentz violating Chuck Norris in space, breathing aether and watching galaxies with his naked eyes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The final line of the orthographic correlations paper was a nice slow burn of a joke as well.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/stBupX3moR1ni_hrKW6rt97_LAU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/stBupX3moR1ni_hrKW6rt97_LAU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/stBupX3moR1ni_hrKW6rt97_LAU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/stBupX3moR1ni_hrKW6rt97_LAU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CosmicVarianceBlog\/~4\/oMZApvcfVZY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/mApeLaY_Jy0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another round of diverting April Fool&#8217;s submissions to the ArXiV. Can you spot the astro-ph paper containing the following? Calculation of the new figure of merit entails calculating elliptic integrals of the second kind, which makes the method more scientific; If it helps, it&#8217;s the same paper which refers to: Lorentz violating Chuck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}