{"id":349,"date":"2010-04-25T18:44:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/25\/on_unfortunate_juxtapositions\/"},"modified":"2010-04-25T18:44:25","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T18:44:25","slug":"on_unfortunate_juxtapositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2010\/04\/25\/on_unfortunate_juxtapositions\/","title":{"rendered":"On unfortunate juxtapositions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Caffe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThere’s an Italian cafe\/deli round the corner. It’s a quiet place, which seems to suit the proprietors well in a Black Books<\/em>-sort of way (although without the personality defects): they open when they feel like it and there are rarely more than three people in at any one time. They do a fine line in double espressos and ciabattas, and sell cheese. <\/p>\n

\nAs we perused the cheese counter last weekend we came across something neither of us had heard of before–taleggio cheese. Sounded interesting, and through the wonders of the internets, iPhones and (despite local mad environmentalists objecting to phone masts) a wavering GPRS signal we found out that it is a ‘semi-soft, washed-rind cheese from the Valteggio region in northern Italy.’ Sounded good, and Bernard<\/strike> the East End\/Italian proprietor said it would go well in a salad, so that’s what we’re having with dinner tonight.<\/p>\n

\nThe unfortunate side of this story is the actual website I found describing the taleggio. The URL is www.artisanalcheese.com, and if that doesn’t make you laugh, maybe the following rambling anecdote might give you a clue.<\/p>\n

\n{FX: wavy lines}<\/p>\n

\nBack when online publication of journals (how did we get from cheese to journals? Well, never mind) was still relatively new and exciting, my boss at the time was editoring a certain journal. And because online publication was still relatively new and exciting, he and the rest of them were quite interested in hit counts for the papers (article-level metrics; way before PLoS got in on the act). And they noticed, as the story was related to me, one paper getting masses of hits. As in orders of magnitude more than the rest. ‘Strange,’ they thought, ‘what’s so exciting about Molecular dissection, tissue localization and Ca2+<\/sup> binding of the ryanodine receptor of Caenorhabditis elegans<\/em><\/strong> ?’<\/p>\n

\nThen someone read the abstract, and all became clear. This quiet, unassuming paper, which was getting absolutely hammered<\/em> by search engines, happens to bear, in the abstract (which is freely searchable, even if the rest of the paper isn’t) the line (and bear in mind that ‘and’ is usually treated as an operator, not a search term)<\/p>\n

CeRyR was found in the body wall, pharyngeal, vulval, anal and sex muscles of adult worms and also found to be present in embryonic muscle, but not in non-muscle cells.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nThere’s a moral here, but I can’t think what it is.<\/p>\n


\nHamada, T., Sakube, Y., Ahnn, J., Kim, D., & Kagawa, H. (2002). Molecular Dissection, Tissue Localization and Ca2+ Binding of the Ryanodine Receptor of Caenorhabditis elegans Journal of Molecular Biology, 324<\/span> (1), 123-135 DOI: 10.1016\/S0022-2836(02)01032-X<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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