Dr. Andy Wai Kan Yeung (pictured here, below) of the University of Hong Kong analyzed several years’ worth of Ig Nobel Prize-winning studies. He published a paper telling how he did it, and what he found. You can download the paper. Here’s the citation: “Not just nickel-and-dime: An analysis of journal articles winning Ig Nobel […]
Ancient advice to students to “get out of the classroom and breath some fresh air” has never been quantified to the satisfaction of people who want to quantify it better. A new study takes a brute-force approach: “Minimum Time Dose in Nature to Positively Impact the Mental Health of College-Aged Students, and How to Measure […]
The Neuroskeptic blog looks at how how a super-masterful sausage slicer makes sausage slices: Scientific Salami Slicing: 33 Papers from 1 Study “Salami slicing” refers to the practice of breaking scientific studies down into small chunks and publishing each part as a separate paper. Given that scientists are judged in large part by the number […]
The Journal of Interrupted Studies, which also seems to call itself the Journal of Interrupted Science, is a proposed publication for scholars who have suffered interruptions in their lives and careers. An article in the Oxford Student explains: Coffee seems to be Paul Ostwald’s preferred editorial tool when it comes to The Journal of Interrupted […]
