This is another drawing by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. Moon has been a scholar of the Ig Nobel Prizes since she was a young teenager. This one celebrates Ig Nobel Public Chemistry & Geology Prize that was awarded in the year 2023 to Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks. That […]
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 is another drawing by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. Moon has been a scholar of the Ig Nobel Prizes since she was a young teenager. This one celebrates Ig Nobel Public Economics Prize that was awarded in the year 2008 to Geoffrey Miller, Joshua Tybur and Brent Jordan of the University of New Mexico, USA, […]
Much is explained, and some is not, in a study about Hopf bifurcation that arises in circular-distributed predator-prey interaction with taxis. The study goes into more detail than the title does: “Equivariant Hopf bifurcation arising in circular-distributed predator-prey interaction with taxis,” Yaqi Chen, Xianyi Zeng, Ben Niu, arXiv:2402.12163, 2024. (Thanks to Mason Porter for bringing […]