“How a silly science prize changed my career” is the headline on an article in Nature magazine. Catriona Clarke interviewed some past winners of the Ig Nobel Prize. (Nature later made a podcast version of this. The article begins: Eleanor Maguire wasn’t too thrilled when she was first offered an Ig Nobel Prize. The neuroscientist […]
You can spend your life analyzing the analyses of lives. Yes, there is a cost to it. To jump-start that process, read this study: “The Value of Statistical Life: A Meta-Analysis of Meta-Analyses,” H. Spencer Banzhaf, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, vol. 13, no. 2, 2022, pp. 182-197. the author explains: “The value of statistical life […]
The results in a new medical study bolster the reputations of the nine national leaders who shared the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for Medical Education. That prize was awarded to Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: A jerk and a creep — “Hidden jerk in universal creep and aftershocks” may sound like the name of a Hollywood movie – and maybe some day it will be. But for now, it is exclusively […]
