Midlogphase reviews my book (the book came out a decade ago) This is Improbable. Midlogphase says: This is a book that you shouldn’t read really fast. This is not a sit down page turner book. This is a book you should read very very slowly. “This is “Improbable”. [These are] things that will make you […]
Alan Alda and Marc Abrahams chatted about the Ig Nobel Prizes and improbable research and much more, on the Clear + Vivid with Alan Alda podcast. The general theme of it all was “laugh then think”.
Shikhara Bhat has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says: I’m Shikhara Bhat, a theoretical evolutionary ecologist. I’m currently a PhD student at the University of Mainz in Germany, where I am using mathematical models to understand why different organisms age at different rates, and why some species, such as Hydra, […]
Some of the researchers who investigated the physics of why some wombats have cube-shaped poo [and who subsequently won a prize for having done that] have been pursuing the related question of “why”. The University of Georgia broadcast news of how they are faring: New study finds square feces may deliver information Most people have […]
