There seems to be a little bit of silliness in the air… It started last week when Paul over at The Endless Frontier posted about a recent paper in Nano Letters with a slightly unusual title… It carried on this week when Dylan at Tenderbutton posted about a graphic graphical abstract from an Inorganic Chemistry paper (also noted by Paul a little while back). A handy resource for such silliness can be found here… which directed me to this humorously titled chem paper – can anybody out there beat that?!

Apparently physicists have a childish sense of humour too…

(For those of you curious about the title of this entry, ‘Carry On’ films are part of British film-making legend and have been described as, ‘an energetic mix of parody, farce and double entendres’ and, to be filed away in your ‘interesting/unusual fact of the day folder’, were produced by Peter Rogers, a namesake (if not exactly the same spelling) of the Chief Editor of Nature Nanotechnology – Peter Rodgers!)

Stuart

Stuart Cantrill (Associate Editor, Nature Nanotechnology)

For your commenting pleasure. All links are to abstracts. Posted on September 21, 2006.

Sandoval et al., A genetic interaction between the vesicular acetylcholine transporter VAChT/UNC-17 and synaptobrevin/SNB-1 in C. elegans

Plant et al., Transient incorporation of native GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors during hippocampal long-term potentiation

Pu et al., BDNF-dependent synaptic sensitization in midbrain dopamine neurons after cocaine withdrawal

Crochet & Petersen, Correlating whisker behavior with membrane potential in barrel cortex of awake mice

Pérez-Otaño et al., Endocytosis and synaptic removal of NR3A-containing NMDA receptors by PACSIN1/syndapin1

Yudowski et al., Distinct modes of regulated receptor insertion to the somatodendritic plasma membrane

Xu et al., Oregano, thyme and clove-derived flavors and skin sensitizers activate specific TRP channels

Bellone & Lüscher, Cocaine triggered AMPA receptor redistribution is reversed in vivo by mGluR-dependent long-term depression

Hartman et al., Activity-dependent regulation of inhibitory synaptic transmission in hippocampal neurons

Majdan & Shatz, Effects of visual experience on activity-dependent gene regulation in cortex

Tropea et al., Gene expression changes and molecular pathways mediating activity-dependent plasticity in visual cortex

Li & DeVries, Bipolar cell pathways for color and luminance vision in a dichromatic mammalian retina

Li et al., The development of direction selectivity in ferret visual cortex requires early visual experience

Hanks et al., Microstimulation of macaque area LIP affects decision-making in a motion discrimination task

Jazayeri & Movshon, Optimal representation of sensory information by neural populations

Yazdanbakhsh & Livingstone, End stopping in V1 is sensitive to contrast

Lai & Lee, Genetic mosaic with dual binary transcriptional systems in Drosophila