Funny weather
If there are any constants in this world, which at the time of writing feels like an increasingly unsafe bet, the status of 1 April as the year’s least humorous day would be right up there among them. Every year, no matter how hard Feedback prophylactically rolls our eyes, the online journals of the world swell up with wry, tongue-in-cheek papers.
This year, the preprint server known as the arXiv has been the worst offender. To get a feel for the sort of content that the arXiv (pronounced archive) usually hosts, we could do no better than inform…
