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About: Marc Abrahams
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Posts by Marc Abrahams:
Beyond Understanding: We Will Live Much Longer [?]
Every day people send us research reports that intrigue them. A few of these reports may be beyond the understanding of anyone in addition to the people who wrote them. S.G. Bershadsky send us a copy of a report that may be in that category. Bershadsky attemped to understand or interpret or describe that report. […]
Video of the Ig Nobel shows at Lund University and at EPFL
Video of two shows on the 2026 Ig Nobel EuroTour: Lund University Lund University, in Lund, Sweden, with Minna Lyons (2014 Ig Nobel Prize winner, for amassing evidence that people who habitually stay up late are, on average, more self-admiring, more manipulative, and more psychopathic than people who habitually arise early in the morning.) Marie […]
Really? Really? Really?
The word “really”, expressed forcefully, was the crux of a long-running comedy routine more than a decade ago, on the American TV program Saturday Night Live. A recent study takes a really good look at the equivalent word in the Mandarin Chinese language. The study is: “Stance-taking and (inter)subjective roles of Mandarin zhende (ma/a),” Shuang […]