• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    [off topic]

    Isaac Asimov was a professional writer long before he entered his doctorate program. When he was writing his thesis he was advised to try to make it sound like it had been written by a chemist and not an author.

    To practice ‘scientific’ style writing he wrote a comic piece.

    The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated
    Thiotimoline

    https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ezgranet/mywebsite/docs/thiotim-latex.pdf

    When he went for his orals, the last question was to explain the exact nature of Thiotimoline.