Peculiar Periodicals
It turns out there are even more unlikely publications than The Journal of Unlikely Science. Every Thursday, our very own Dr Steer turns his attention to another weird science journal.
This week: TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY
| Name – The last word in latest fashions for all your blood-sucking, parasitic buddies. What's hot in the cootie's closet this season? How are the hookworms wearing their hair? These important questions and more answered. |  |
) "click to enlarge") Front cover – Whambo! That's more like it. It's colourful, it's interesting, it's got a nasty little creeper wiggling about in someone's blood. What more could you want? |
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| Off-the-wallness – Initial excitement dashed - the only fashions here are well-fashioned arguments about the life-cycle of roundworms and control of ticks. I thought it was too good to last. |  |
| Usefulness – I hate ticks. I mean really hate them with a passion - nasty little, bitey, sucky swine - anything that tries to do them in is good by me. | |
| Impressiveness – All the articles have titles like "Living in a phagolysosome; metabolism of Leishmania amastigotes". It's as though they think that using long and complicated words is what science is all about. And they're right! Good on 'em, we wouldn't want just anyone realising what you mean is "How a juvenile Leishmania parasite stays alive" |  |
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| Overall – A slinky little number that's waltzed its way off the catwalk and into my heart. |  |
Impact factor: club that tick and club it good.Find more Peculiar Periodicals
The Null's other regular features:
Monday: Phunny Phobias
Tuesday: Strange Scientific Names
Wednesday: Doctor Doctor
Thursday: Peculiar Periodicals
Friday: End of the Week Timewasters
Erratically: The World in Brief
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