Cheap thrills save lives, some might infer from this new study: “Sildenafil and Suicide in Sweden,” Ralph Catalano, Sidra Goldman-Mellor, Tim A. Bruckner, and Terry Hartig, European Journal of Epidemiology, epub 2021. (Thanks to Staffan Yngve for bringing this to our attention.) Here’s a plot of data from the study, which comes with the explanation […]
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Podcast #23: The effect of country music on suicide
“Volunteers performed three 1-minute sequences of continuous chest compressions on a manikin accompanied by No Music, repeated choruses of ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ and ‘Disco Science’.” This and other country music insights — and lots of other things — turn up in this week’s Improbable Research podcast. Click on the “Venetian blinds” icon — at the lower right corner […]
Effects of Parliamentary Elections on Suicide Rates in Hungary
Professor David Lester, the world’s most prolific writer of short research studies about suicide, has a new study: “Effects of Parliamentary Elections on Suicide Rates in Hungary,” Tamás Zonda, Zoltán Kmetty, David Lester, Mónika Ditta Tóth, Crisis, epub 2015. The authors are at Hungarian Association for Suicide Prevention, Budapest, Hungary, Károli Gáspár University, Budapest, Hungary, […]
Explosive Lemming Outbreaks in Fennoscandia
An outbreak of lemmings is not something you’ll see every year. The last major one was 2006 to 2007 – the first time in two decades. The causes of, and mechanisms behind, such population surges are, to this day, intriguing naturalists (and physicists, and mathematicians). But some progress towards understanding the outbreaks is, however, being […]
