Hell is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications

Because science ought to be fun and attractive, particularly when many months of hard work with grant applications, data collections and calculations are over and everything is ready for publishing the wonderful results, it is most unfortunate that the final reading and writing phases are so tiresome.

[Kaj Sand-Jensen: How to write consistently boring scientific literature]

I also recommend that these studies be reported with no sense of excitement or enthusiasm. Nowhere in the approach, analysis and writing should there be any mention of the personal reflections leading to this intensive study that robbed five years of the author's youth. This is beyond boring; it is truly sad.

Fifty years of Charlie Starkweather

It was 50 years ago yesterday that [Charlie] Starkweather murdered his first victim—the shotgun killing of a gas station attendant on Dec. 1, 1957—and the case continues to engage our collective consciousness.

Starkweather's lasting impact on society and pop culture (Steve Jordon, Omaha World Herald)