If you’re in Baltimore on Monday, November 21, grab a cup of coffee and (carefully) stop by the American Physical Society meeting. The most exciting session is likely to be: Session H17: Geophysical Flows: General IV, Monday, November 21, 2011, 11:22 AM–11:35 AM, Room: 320 Chair: Keith Julien, University of Colorado Abstract: H17.00005 : Walking with […]
Experimental economics: Trade an island for a debt
Paul V. Kane, described as “a former international security fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School”, published (in the New York Times) his idea to solve two nations’ economic problems in a single stroke. He suggests that the United States should sell Taiwan to China for one trillion dollars. (Thanks to investigator Jonas Nyman of the […]
Ingenious disingenuity?
“Robert V. Kail, editor of Psychological Science, says he’s never heard of the likelihood of press attention being used as a reason to publish a researcher’s work.” So says a November 13, 2011 report in the Chronicle of Higher Education. You might enjoy browsing through the press releases issued by Psychological Science over the past […]
Dr. Wagenmakers disapproves (urination & drunkenness)
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a thoughtful article called “Fraud Scandal Fuels Debate Over Practices of Social Psychology“. They interviewed several people, including the irrepressibly irascible Dr. Wagenmakers [pictured here, in the photo he features on his web site]: But one methodological expert, Eric-Jan Wagenmakers, of the University of Amsterdam, added a sociological twist to the […]