TIL that a cat once co-authored a physics paper. In 1975, a physicist had just finished writing a paper and was ready to publish but realized that he had used ‘we’ instead of ‘I’ throughout, despite being the sole author. Not wanting to edit the paper, he listed his cat, Chester, as a co-author.
Ok but the best part is, physicists loved the joke. When people called the author’s university and he wasn’t available, they’d ask to speak with the co-author instead. The author issued a limited number of copies of the article signed by both authors. (Chester’s was obviously a pawprint.) And to this day, physics papers will often have F.D.C Willard (Felix Domesticus, Chester Williard [Willard was the author’s father’s name]) mentioned in the footnotes thanking his “useful contributions to the discussion”.
[id: Tweet by @immissmajor reading “After 70 years I am here to tell you the system has always tried to break us. All us trans girls know we got to depend on each other and when enough of us bitches come together we can burn it down and use the ashes to build the motherfucking mansions we deserve! #stillfuckinghere”]
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ScienceVet is a Ph.D in Biochemistry and has published in the fields of endocrinology and sexual differentiation. His Ph.D. is in Biomedical Sciences – Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmocology.
One of the most vile tricks ever pulled, is the way that even the mildest left-leaning ideals are made out to be a political imposition trying to force people to act or think a certain way, while even the hardest right-wing ideologies are construed as mere beliefs, matters of opinion that we must respect.
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