Winner for the “bad article titles of the week” award: “Homeotic Supersymmetry,” by Barenboim and Lykken. I made it halfway through the abstract before I realized that I’d misread the title. (And that it wasn’t nearly as interesting as I’d first expected)

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Published in: on April 1, 2003 at 17:22  Comments (4)  
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  1. On April 1, 2003 at 17:24 kaidevis said:

    I mis-read that as well. Except that instead of reading it, my head went, “WTF?—Damn, those physicists have been stuck in the lab with each other too long!”

  2. On April 1, 2003 at 17:28 moof said:

    Admittedly, the paper talks about fermions getting conjugated, and they do spin both ways….

  3. On April 2, 2003 at 00:18 jephly said:

    Um, damn, I also did a double-take on those author’s names.

  4. On April 2, 2003 at 00:19 zunger said:

    Hmm… wow, I missed that somehow.
    And no, this paper is apparently not an April Fool’s joke.


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