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Volume 1
EDITORIAL
Introducing the Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science (PNIS): Come with us!.
Guide to understanding scientific writing. I. Abbreviations
Guide to understanding scientific writing. II. Common Phrases (Part 1: the Latin ones)
Guide to understanding scientific writing. II. Common Phrases (Part 2: the non-Latin ones)
Argument for compatibility in the discourse of cake possession versus cake consumption
SOFD
Assessment of the frequency with which men think of things: chicken wings
Searching for the intelligent designer: a laboratory experiment
A proposed revision to the Periodic Table of the Elements
What's all this then about monkeys peeling bananas better than humans?
Successful clinical trials of HomeoQuack©, a homeopathic vaccine for autism
Characterizing the morphologically distinct regions of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
A child’s Christmas in the surveillance state: Cultural critique, Elf on a Shelf
HARD
Yes We Canities! A quantitative analysis of the graying of Barack Obama's hair
If you believe in heaven, then you should be doing everything possible in order to get there
Yes, if you poop at work, you are getting paid to poop. But you're also saving money
Peak Pumpkin Spice: When will it end?: The indefinite analysis.
We are entering an unprecedented age in baby name flux
Comparative morphology of popular xkcd characters
The truth about Santa’s beer: An experimental test of holiday beer appeal
Volume 2
EDITORIAL
Guide to understanding scientific writing. III. Titles
SOFD
Neural correlates of people waiting to get into Heaven
Fine-scale movements of a Midwestern Beech-Maple Forest: First Ever Tree Radiotelemetry Study
I am in Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
Honey, this χ2 analysis shows that I clean the cat’s litter box significantly more than you do
An analysis of some quotes of George W. Bush: Bumbling idiot or master wordsmith?
A Statistical Reformulation of the Mass-Energy Equivalence Equation, E=mc2
The proof of the pudding: A series of applied tests of the implications of research on embodiment
Dynamics and behavior of a local eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) population
Exposure to Fox News increases vigilance in tadpoles of the green frog (Rana clamitans)
HARD
A quest to find some absurd yet accurate predictors of Super Bowl success
Our Super Bowl Prediction: Seattle Seahawks 29.02, New England Patriots 17.98
Did the Apollo astronauts retain their Hemingway-esque diction while walking on the moon?
How likely are you to encounter snark on Stack Overflow? Part 1: Comparison of statistical software
Racial and gender diversity of the characters in The New Yorker cartoons
The different characters of the cartoons of The New Yorker and the cartoonists who draw them
Can you pray your way toward statistical significance? An experimental test
The Best and the sneakiest: Minimizing the cost associated with false publication histories
The War Between the Barbates: Facial hair of the commanders of the United States Civil War
Beards of War: Relationships between facial hair coverage and battle outcome in the U.S. Civil War
Volume 3
EDITORIAL
SOFD
Laboratory "evolution" of complex life
HARD
Some updated stats on the Super Bowl and our annual, precise prediction
Hand size does not correlate with brain size among US politicians: a non-partisan analysis
MAPSS
Map showing the number of US State symbols and icons that are actually non-native species
Viva l'Italia! Rick Steves' Europe features Italy more than any other country
SPECIAL PAPER
Paper of the Future! What a standard academic paper might look like in five years
Scientific Paper Supercut: "More Research is Needed"
Our Article for Cracked.com (The Director's Cut!)
SCI-NEWS
New ASA membership plans permit members to reject null hypotheses at alpha values > 0.05
Nature Publishing Group to begin publishing personalized journals
Discovery Institute to launch a theistic extension for Microsoft Office
Tim Hunt unsure to which Nobel laureate he’ll pass the bigot baton
Lab technician issues recall for latest batch of agar plates
Tungsten hires publicist amid image overhaul
Plutonium to be renamed Trans-Neptunian Objectium
Principal Investigator still not pleased with latest iteration of Figure 2
Scientist baffled and upset that a recently published paper did not cite his research
Desperate for funding, scientists try to include graphene in their research
Taiga to be officially renamed as "The Biome Formerly Known as Taiga"
Failed PCR blamed on misplacement of lucky pipette
Laboratory study on predator-induced plasticity in krill already well over budget
Graduate student just realized that yesterday was a holiday
American Psychological Association to republish retraced articles in wake of reproducibility project
Craft reagents becoming a booming scientific business
California's innovation plummets as drought cuts length of scientists' showers
Five-year thought experiment expected to come in well under budget
Thermo Fisher Scientific to release new Pumpkin Spice Agarose
Commentary: Albert Einstein used to be a great scientist, but now it seems like he's just coasting
Students puts science fair project behind a paywall, wins first prize
Students unsure if professor's rant about being an adjunct will be on the final exam
Researcher now claiming that oft-rejected manuscript was actually a performance art piece
Physics student crushed that STEM isn't the sexless, geek paradise promised by the Big Bang Theory
Grad student in mathematics ruins birthday party by using a fair division algorithm to cut cake
BREAKING: Student consults syllabus before asking question about course schedule
Astrobiologists desperately seeking statistical test that can work with a sample size of one
In effort to pad CV, postdoc requests that all birthday presents be given as ‘grants’
Simon & Schuster recall Scratch-n-Sniff Periodic Table of the Elements children’s book
Excision of junk DNA becomes latest plastic surgery trend
Internal Revenue Service announces that professors can claim graduate students as dependents
Poll finds that a majority of Dinosaurs now regret evolving into birds
Rogue astronomer names new exoplanet Kepler-89a
Non-normal dataset sues statistician over discrimination
Wiley-Blackwell launches ‘cheese-stuffed’ journals in effort to increase print subscriptions
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