Lightsabers, Quantum Computers, Photons Bonding Together As New Form of Matter!

[Ed Anger]

I'd love to have a lightsaber. I could slice my bologna with ease.

[Razgovory]

Every article I saw had light saber in the title.

https://news.google.com/news?ncl=dkBHHn0LUvCap_M2CDNILOTxs1g3M&q=photons+new+form+of+matter&lr=English&hl=en

Here's one that doesn't: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.html "Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter"

You'd think that the labratory creation of a new (and potentially highly useful) form of matter would be exciting enough that even a cnet.com writer would see the significance.  But, no.  He babbles about bromances between photons and about light sabers, instead.

It does mention lightsabers.

[Eddie Teach]

Grumbler is correct though. It doesn't mention them in the title. It manages to hold off on the Star Wars references until the opening sentence. 

[grumbler]

  My god you are old and boring.

  My god you are old and boring and dumb.

[grumbler]

Grumbler is correct though. It doesn't mention them in the title. It manages to hold off on the Star Wars references until the opening sentence. 

Indeed.  And the problem isn't mentioning the light sabers per se (the prof does it, so the writer hardly can avoid it), but the cnet.com article's endless "bro" and "bromance" references and its focus on the light saber and Star Wars shit to the exclusion of the scientific wonders right under the writer's nose.

Good science writing doesn't have to be boring, it just has to avoid being stupid.  The cnet.com article fails the test. The phys.org article is well-written, IMO, and if people like PDH can't see the difference... well, that says much more about them than it does the articles.

[jimmy olsen]

endless "bro" and "bromance" references

It uses each of those words once

[PDH]

  My god you are old and boring.

  My god you are old and boring and dumb.

Hey! I can speak.

[Siege]

Still better article than the bigfoot DNA bullshit.