This week’s Ambiguous Paper Title is: “Coffee and heart failure: A further potential beneficial effect of coffee,” Anna Vittoria Mattioli and Alberto Farinetti, Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 2023.
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Ambiguity: Broilers in Turkey
This week’s ambiguously-worded science headline: “Profitability and Cost Analysis for Contract Broiler Production in Turkey,”by Suleyman Karaman, Yavuz Taşcıoğlu, and Osman Doğan Bulut, Animals, vol. 13, no. 13, 2023. The authors are based at Akdeniz University and Iğdır University, Turkey.
Murderous Twins Paradox, From the Wood, Alumni Decomposition
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: Double Jeopardy — … Jane Ridley assesses a tough legal problem in an Insider.com article with an extremely long headline: “Identical college twins were accused of cheating in an exam by signaling. They won $1.5 million […]
Governing cyberspace via ‘Constructive Ambiguity’ (and Schrödinger’s cat)
How can the vastness of cyberspace can be ‘governed’ in any practical way? Perhaps some ‘Constructive Ambiguity’ might help resolve such questions? A 2015 thesis by Professor Paul Cornish (Associate Director of Oxford University’s Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre and Research Group Director for Defence, Security and Infrastructure at RAND Europe in Cambridge, UK) suggests […]


