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eiriasHave you ever overheard snippets of a conversation on the bus or in some other public space that makes you really curious what the rest of it was about?
There's an academic version of this experience: when you're reading a photocopied article in a two-page-per-side format, take a look at the "widow" page of the article that preceded or followed it in print. Sometimes it's a fun distraction from what you're actually supposed to be reading.
Interesting, odd, and/or funny widows in my stack:
* A review of "The Secret Self," (by psychoanalyst Theodor Reik) that concludes thusly: "It is with regret that one must, in the face of this, accuse Reik of a major modern crime - guilt by free association."
* "Haptic integration of object properties: texture, hardness, and planar contour" by Klatzky and colleagues
* "Categorical perception of nonspeech chirps and bleats," by Pastore and colleagues
* Something which appears to be a screed against nonparametric statistics
* Something about eyelid conditioning
* Something with an abstract in French about the role of relative adjectives (e.g. "big") in semantic memory
* A complaint that a particular term in cognitive psychology is "so vague and ambiguous as to be virtually meaningless" (who'd've thunk it?)
* Something involving name recognition, including an appendix with all the experimentally-presented names, including such beauts as "Spike Poorhard" and "Rupert Chirney"
* Something about implicit learning, which, hm, maybe I should go back and get
* "A process model of posthypnotic amnesia," by Huesmann and friends
* An ad for a book entitled, "Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and NanoTechnology" ... in 1988
Journal readers, what are some of the good widows in your stack?
There's an academic version of this experience: when you're reading a photocopied article in a two-page-per-side format, take a look at the "widow" page of the article that preceded or followed it in print. Sometimes it's a fun distraction from what you're actually supposed to be reading.
Interesting, odd, and/or funny widows in my stack:
* A review of "The Secret Self," (by psychoanalyst Theodor Reik) that concludes thusly: "It is with regret that one must, in the face of this, accuse Reik of a major modern crime - guilt by free association."
* "Haptic integration of object properties: texture, hardness, and planar contour" by Klatzky and colleagues
* "Categorical perception of nonspeech chirps and bleats," by Pastore and colleagues
* Something which appears to be a screed against nonparametric statistics
* Something about eyelid conditioning
* Something with an abstract in French about the role of relative adjectives (e.g. "big") in semantic memory
* A complaint that a particular term in cognitive psychology is "so vague and ambiguous as to be virtually meaningless" (who'd've thunk it?)
* Something involving name recognition, including an appendix with all the experimentally-presented names, including such beauts as "Spike Poorhard" and "Rupert Chirney"
* Something about implicit learning, which, hm, maybe I should go back and get
* "A process model of posthypnotic amnesia," by Huesmann and friends
* An ad for a book entitled, "Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and NanoTechnology" ... in 1988
Journal readers, what are some of the good widows in your stack?
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Date: 2005-02-20 02:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-21 12:56 pm (UTC)Our department library kind of sucks and hasn't been updated AFAICT since about 1994, and people don't really write notes in the journals at the main campus library, but it's a cool idea.
My advisor is always embarrassed about the notes in the margins of her journals and books. I don't know why.