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: CHEMPHYSCHEM
| Name – Make your bloody mind up. what's it to be? There's no room for dillying and dallying around here. It's worse than offering the Bush administration a choice between war and oil. "War... no, oil... ooh no war... hey, I'll just have 'em both." |  |
) "click to enlarge") Front cover – Yes! Name and lurid pink bits aside, it's a beauty. Good colours, fine design and pretty pictures. What's interesting is that they've obviously taken an old cover from the seventies and just printed the negative. |
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| Off-the-wallness – A journal for people who study physics and chemistry? Crrrr-azy! | |
| Usefulness – One of the articles is about the intelligent control of surface hydrophobicity, which must be good. Imagine if our hydrophobes had their surfaces controlled idiotically - it would be terribly messy. |  |
| Impressiveness – I've got one word for you: Hexamolybdenum. Wallop! |  |
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| Overall – What a surprise, neither good nor bad. Who would have thought it? |  |
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Impact factor: Big... no not so big... but maybe it's big. Oh I don't know.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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