Scientific journals do edit the TeX file. Both to update the visual style (e.g. enabling commercial fonts that they use for print but are not allowed to distribute with the template), and to update the content itself (to revise the grammatical style to fit the style guide followed by that journal, to update scientific references to have clickable links, etc.). Usually, at the end of all these edits, the journal sends a PDF “proof” back to the authors to verify that the final version is OK, or ask for corrections if they broke something (which they often do).

In many math and physics journals, as well as on arXiv, you usually submit the TeX file itself so they can adjust it and recompile.

Let’s make a language called “A” in that case. (I mean C was fine, so why not one letter?)

It depends what you use it for. I’m a researcher and use it to follow scientific literature (relevant arXiv sections and scientific journals, as well as funding agency announcements), and keeping an eye on what’s up is then arguably part of the job.

If you use it for general news and blogs, that’s of course different. I completely agree with letting the FOMO go.

How would you get away with the stolen truffles?

Alphabetical order sounds interesting when you mix non-anglicized international names. Do you go by Unicode sort order?

I’m in physics, we have this thing where the first author did the most and the last author supervised the most, and the person in the middle just had an occasional coffee with them.

I’d guess it’d be a particular collation, rather than Unicode order…otherwise ö would always come after z (which is incorrect for English, but correct for, e.g., Swedish).

> otherwise ö would always come after z

Really? Wouldn't that depend on how you spelled it and what kind of Unicode ordering you specified?

Which comes first?

    '\u0047\u00f6\u0064\u0065\u006c'
    '\u0047\u006f\u0308\u0064\u0065\u006c'

Sounds like they’re on track for a FILD medal with that paper.

I have one big reason to use Zotero’s built-in one: They have a pretty good iPad app that syncs PDF highlights and comments with it.

This is my major reason as well. I run a Mac, Windows machine, and have iPhone / iPad devices spread around. I am constantly working with PDFs and highlighting them and having those highlights sync cross platform has been amazing.

I would define that psychological process as “maturing”, as opposed to the more biological process usually referred to as “aging”. Although the two are usually highly correlated.

There’s also the classic magnetic levitation of bugs:

https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-pdf/51/9/36/831336...

The author is as far as I know the only physicist to receive both a Nobel prize (for graphene) and an Ignoble prize (for levitating small animals), and he has commented that he’s equally proud of both.

(He’s also published a non-popsci physics paper about the experiment for those interested, and there are YouTube videos of the experiment.)