Microsoft's spell checker:
One of the most fun things about writing a scientific paper in Microsoft Word is that this serves as a constant reminder of just how much Microsoft does not know about, or does not recognize.
Today's unknown terms, found in under an hour, just as a representative sample, include: "endemicity," "complementarity," "alveolates," "silicoflagellate," "phylogenetically" and "archaea," all suggesting a strange dark world of extremes and numbers and tiny flickering things that Microsoft chooses to ignore in its ongoing quest for world domination.
My own paper, of course, should be following Microsoft's example, and be utterly free of any mentions of alveolates and archaea, but what can I say? I've gotten distracted -- dinoflagellates and strange not-really-bacteria things are evil that way -- and after all, most of the fun of research is the unexpected tidbits found along the way.
Today's unknown terms, found in under an hour, just as a representative sample, include: "endemicity," "complementarity," "alveolates," "silicoflagellate," "phylogenetically" and "archaea," all suggesting a strange dark world of extremes and numbers and tiny flickering things that Microsoft chooses to ignore in its ongoing quest for world domination.
My own paper, of course, should be following Microsoft's example, and be utterly free of any mentions of alveolates and archaea, but what can I say? I've gotten distracted -- dinoflagellates and strange not-really-bacteria things are evil that way -- and after all, most of the fun of research is the unexpected tidbits found along the way.