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This is now my favorite scientific paper headline, beating out the previous champion, "How Many Birds Are There?" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1
by pje 9y ago
This is now my favorite scientific paper headline, beating out the previous champion, "How Many Birds Are There?"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018341530497 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1018341530497
- Zanta 9y agoOn the subject of birds, "Great tits also have age-related defects" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307130215.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110307130215.h...
- tajen 9y agoIn that case, if you lay outdoors with your mouth open, how long does it take until a bird ... in it? Depending on the worldwide bird density and the relative size of the mouth: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
- rafi_kamal 9y agoDo you have a freely accessible copy of this paper?
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- perl4ever 9y agoIs this basically just taking a Fermi type estimation and making a paper out of it? I was just thinking that I like doing those sorts of calculations, and given that so many people on the Internet profess to hate them, there should be an exploitable niche somewhere.