French medical journalist Marc Gozlan reminds us that the most viewed article in the history of the British Medical Journal led to the creation of what became “The most viewed medical video in the world“. Here is that video: Where did that come from? Here’s the story of how that video came to be, and […]
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“MRI Sex: The most viewed article in BMJ”, after 20 years
An editor of the British Medical Journal (The BMJ) told us a few years ago that one particular BMJ paper, published in 1999, has—from the moment that paper was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize in the year 2000— consistently drawn more web visitors—many, many more—than anything—anything—else published in the history of The BMJ. Everything every […]
An Empirical, 21st Century Evaluation of Phrenology
The old technique of judging people by examining their head bumps gets a new looking-at, in this study: “An Empirical, 21st Century Evaluation of Phrenology,” Oiwi Parker Jones, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, and Saad Jbabdi, bioRxiv 243089, 2018. The authors, at the University of Oxford, UK, explain: Phrenology was a nineteenth century endeavour to link personality traits […]
The insides of a singer singing, and a talker talking
The insides of a singer singing are on display in this video, produced by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. And here’s a look inside a talker talking: The Max Planck Institute is celebrating some of the work that made this kind of video possible. In particular, they say: The European Patent […]
