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: Lipstick in the brain — Lipstick interacts with the human brain mostly in indirect ways. Kazue Hirabayashi and colleagues have been modernising the search for some of those interactions. Their stated goal is to find “a […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Suck it up— Reader Simon Leach responded to Feedback’s call for papers in which The Title Tells You Everything You Need to Know with a cheery “Well, you asked for it!”. The “it” was a copy of […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: The raw-broccoli experiment — What would be the effect on young adults and young children of seeing positive expressions on the faces of strangers who are eating raw broccoli? Katie Edwards at Aston University, UK, together with […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Politicians and ChatGPT — A few politicians seek success by being ultra-glib. In so doing, they achieve momentary plausibility. Feedback notices a similarity between those politicians’ shiny, hollow speech and the shiny, hollow text generated by […]