{"id":13687,"date":"2010-04-01T04:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fooling-with-the-literature-cosmic-variance\/"},"modified":"2010-04-01T04:32:05","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T04:32:05","slug":"fooling-with-the-literature-cosmic-variance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fooling-with-the-literature-cosmic-variance.php","title":{"rendered":"Fooling with the Literature | Cosmic Variance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another round of diverting April Fool&rsquo;s submissions to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xxx.lanl.gov\/archive\/astro-ph\">ArXiV<\/a>.<\/p><p>Can you spot the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/xxx.lanl.gov\/list\/astro-ph\/new\">astro-ph<\/a> paper containing the following?<\/p><blockquote><p>Calculation of the new figure of merit entails calculating elliptic integrals of the second kind, which makes the method more scientific;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>If it helps, it&rsquo;s the same paper which refers to:<\/p><blockquote><p>Lorentz violating Chuck Norris in space, breathing aether and watching galaxies with his naked eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The final line of the orthographic correlations paper was a nice slow burn of a joke as well.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/stBupX3moR1ni_hrKW6rt97_LAU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59886_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/stBupX3moR1ni_hrKW6rt97_LAU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59886_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59886_oMZApvcfVZY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/59886_mApeLaY_Jy0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another year, another round of diverting April Fool&rsquo;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fooling-with-the-literature-cosmic-variance.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}