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This is a link post Could this be the best abstract to a scientific paper ever?
Probably.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Excellent
Took me a few seconds to spot it. Brevity truly is the soul of wit.
 (SimianKid internet faffer, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:34, Reply)
This is a normal post Nice
See Ben Goldacre's blog from this weekend looking at the effect of title on the number of citations a paper gets.
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/14/does-a-question-get-science-paper-cited
 (Smale is stuffed, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Interesting stuff.
I find a lot of titles in scientific journals utterly soul-destroying in their literalism: too many take the form "X is Y". That's not a title. That's a conclusion.

Thankfully, you do find the occasional title that's more creative; more thankfully, titles (and whole papers) in the humanities - and I spend more time reading humanities papers than scientific ones - are much less likely to be literalistic. Some are even quite jokey: there's nothing so heartwarming as a paper whose title is a good, or terrible, pun...
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:56, Reply)
This is a normal post I Read
a lot of medical articles and the recent trend is for punny titles - at least in the less scholarly journals.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:01, Reply)
This is a normal post To be fair,
my main contact with science journals is the BMJ; they tend to take things very seriously indeed.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:02, Reply)
This is a normal post Mine
is the ANZ Journal Of Surgery. They're a bit more relaxed down under.
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:10, Reply)
This is a normal post To the point
I like this
 (I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 10:49, Reply)
This is a normal post I love this a lot
Moar of this sort of sciencing.

***EDIT*** Is that definitely for sure a real academic paper? I have to give a speech at CERN shortly about the value of good communication, and I might use this as an example if it is...
 (I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:23, Reply)
This is a normal post Well, it's in ArXiv...
...which is a pre-print archive - It's not been peer-reviewed and published yet.

But it is a real paper written by real scientists, so I'd go for it.
 (I helped save b3ta! TheAlmightyBeev, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Ta muchly for the clarification!
I think that means I should use it.

Just wanted to check it wasn't a joke, rather than a real paper.

Will make a point about communications which are normally long-winded and tedious not having to be long-winded and tedious rather nicely.
 (I helped save b3ta! prince-igor si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 11:54, Reply)