Our columns in other publications — The ‘Feedback’ column in New Scientist magazine, beginning in September 2022, and the “Improbable Research”column that ran for 13 years in The Guardian newspaper.
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Comparatively: People who own dogs or cats — Leah Michelle Baines and Jessica Lee Oliva at James Cook University in Australia say they have discovered that people who own dogs tend to be more resilient than those […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Chicken blushing — People — humans — blush. Chickens aren’t entirely inhuman in that they, too, show emotions on their facial skin. Delphine Soulet at the University of Tours, France, and colleagues have explored how skin redness […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Hair pulling — Yes, when someone pulls your hair – if you have enough hair that someone can pull it – it hurts. But the truth of why that is, and some of the how much and […]
Here’s my annual writeup in New Scientist magazine of the year’s new Ig Nobel Prize winners. Further details about the 2024 winners, and about the 2024 ceremony, are here on the Improbable Research web site.
