The AAAS Annual Meeting is happening this week. Join us at the Improbable Research session, on Thursday, February 11, from 2:15 to 3:15. Navigate to the AAAS Meeting live channel <https://virtual.aaas.org/landing> (NOTE: The Improbable Research session is a public session, which means that you can probably watch it even if you have not paid to […]
Category: Research News
Research — on any and all subjects — that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
Catching a 1000-mile-per-hour baseball
SmarterEveryDay made a cannon that can fire a baseball into the heavens at one thousand miles per hour, then used that cannon to fire baseballs first into a dummy of a person, then later into a baseball glove, then later still (after finding that one baseball glove is insufficient to catch a 1000 mph baseball) […]
Pennycook: Timing Matters When Correcting Fake News
Peace Prize winner Gordon Pennycook and colleagues did an experiment about how to disrupt the workings of genuinely faked news. They published a study about what they learned: “Timing Matters When Correcting Fake News,” Nadia M. Brashier, Gordon Pennycook, Adam J. Berinsky, and David G. Rand, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, […]
If you really love numbers, and love surprises…
Yes, if you really love numbers—and love surprises—savor this video review of the book A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates: