Eugenie Scott and I had a fun talk, for an online meeting of the Bay Area Skeptics, about the Ig Nobel Prizes. This happened on June 8, 2023. Here’s video:
Electric meringue recipe, public relations equation, and two sleepy superpowers
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Power meringue — Researchers in South Korea and the US have cooked up a recipe for meringue that you can then use to make electrical batteries…. Public relations equation — “It will cost up to $21.5 […]
Headline about an extinct skink
This week’s pleasingly-worded science headline: “Ancient extinct skink was orders of magnitude bigger than any skink alive today“. It appears over a June 14, 2023 report by Phys.org about research done in Australia.
The invisible-gorilla guys shine a spotlight on con men’s tricks
The Ig Nobel Prize-winning “invisible gorilla” guys have a new book coming out. The book is about con men — about how (1) everyone can get conned, and (2) anyone can learn to not get conned so often. Dan Simons and Chris Chabris‘s new book is called Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and […]