A new study — about malaria-causing mosquitos and stinky human feet — builds on the Ig Nobel Prize-winning experiments performed by Bart Knols and Ruurd de Jong. Knols and de Jong also showed that the mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of limburger cheese. [Knols described that research publicly again last week at the Ig […]
The Handwriting is on Wall Street: CEO Scribbling Significance?
Business analysts struggle to find reliable ways to make any sense of the great mystery: Which firms will thrive, and which wither? This new study, perhaps as reliable as most business indicators, looks at the size of the chief executive’s handwriting: “Narcissism is a Bad Sign: CEO Signature Size, Investment, and Performance,” Charles Ham, Nicholas […]
Ideas and/or Babes They Picked Up Somewhere
The simple concept of evolution inspires some academics to pursue sexy ideas or other entities: “The dating mind: Evolutionary psychology and the emerging science of human courtship,” Nathan Oesch and Igor Miklousic, Evolutionary Psychology, vol.10, no. 5, 2011, pp. 899-909. The authors, at the University of Oxford and the Institute of social sciences Ivo […]
Misrepresentations & doubletalk: Haynes
Today’s Misrepresentations and Doubletalk Study of the Day is: “A review of some attacks on the overkill hypothesis, with special attention to misrepresentations and doubletalk,” Gary Haynes, Quaternary International, 169–170 (2007) 84–94. Professor Haynes, at the University of Nevada, Reno, and who is president of the INQUA Commission on Humans and the Biosphere (formerly Commission […]