Scientists having cheesy fun
Every two weeks, I look forward to my copy of Cell (yes, I’m a big dork that way). This week, I found Cell had a really surreal cover: a drawing of a phoenix.
Curious, I turned to look at the cover description. It was, to say the least, quite cheesy:
Cover art…depicts CASK kinase as the Phoenix, presumed dead in the fires of evolution, resurrecting in an unanticipated active form.
A little purple much? It was apparently drawn by the second author of the corresponding paper. A good drawing…but “cheeserific” symbolism (to quote a friend of mine).
Another cheesy cover I saw a while ago was this Nature cover, hearkening back to pulp science fiction:
Awesome retro-nerd-ness!
