Hyper-prolific people are difficult to keep track of. But it’s fun to peek now and then at their latest wonders.
Professor David Lester is a paragon of prolific-ness. He’s been mentioned here before (See “The net result“, September 7 2004, and “Suicide isn’t penniless“, November 14 2006). Since 1966, Lester has published nearly 2,000 academic studies. Most are brief, just a page or two long. Many are co-authored with colleagues or students, or with his wife, Drexel University economist Bijou Yang.
Here are some nuggets from his several hundred new papers published during 2005 and 2006….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.