Kaltenegger is at work on a paper discussing how much of a planet's surface an organism has to cover in order to be detectable.
Even worse, from the banks' point of view, the Basel committee last month put out a paper discussing changing the way some assets — including credit-default swaps — are counted.
The paper, discussing the award, praised Holst for his "calm, scientific voice," and quoted an observation of his: "Every schoolchild in Denmark has been on a farm and seen someone chop off a chicken's head.
Confusion over cooling In March, a rather technical paper discussing climate periodicity was widely misinterpreted as suggesting that we are in a period of global cooling, and much energy was expended trying to set the record straight.
Prompted by the secretary of the French Academy of Sciences, Marie-Jean Condorcet, he wrote a paper discussing the problem of earthworks (composed in 1776 and reworked in 1781) in which he used calculus to determine the curvature of a surface.
The revelation in September that Nasa had found water on Mars, for instance, was discovered in advance because the agency's speaker list included a number of scientists who had been active in such discoveries in the past and who were named on an online paper discussing the discovery.
