In this golden age of con men (call them “con artists”, if you are persnickety about your lingo), more of them are worming their way into the science world. Those science con men are devising new ways to manipulate things at ever-deeper professional levels. A team of detectives writes, in The Conversation, about some muck […]
What makes most scientists most excited is the same thing that—if they’ve heard about it—makes many non-scientists wonder if scientists are nuts: Way more than half of “the stuff the universe is made of” is still a mystery to scientists. Which may strike you as a crazy thing to realize, and a crazy thing to say. […]
Aaron Gordon’s writing about written reports that few people have read has probably been read more than most reports about reports that few people have read. Gordon’s report about reports was published in Pacific Standard: At one of the first academic conferences I ever attended, I heard an economist joke that dissertations are only read […]
The 30+ years since the launch of Super Mario Bros. have given ample opportunity for scholars to study the game’s possible influences in academia and society at large. Here is a short list of some representative academic works [ all of which can be read in full via the links ] that have documented ramifications […]
