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I'm a big fan of these sorts of articles. The best writing usually tells a story: a continuous narrative for some reason resonates deeply with the human mind and allows us to absorb information and place things into perspective. It's an old trick, going back to the legends and parables of the ancient worlds of Gilgamesh and Homer.

One of the things we often miss when reading/writing a scientific paper is this narrative: the introduction should at least set the scene, but in truth so many scientists are so poor at writing that their papers become garbled and abstruse, even for other experts in their field.

Maybe we should all try to tell stories in our next papers?