A lost tooth turning up in a child’s ear, and other peculiar reports in dental journals chew up this week’s Improbable Research podcast. SUBSCRIBE on Play.it, iTunes, or Spotify to get a new episode every week, free. This week, Marc Abrahams teams up with Harvard chemist Daniel Rosenberg, who gives dramatic readings and opinions, drawing on his own dental experience, his knowledge of chemistry and physics, and […]
Brain Size and the Risk of Getting Shot
Some humans are always hunting for thoughts about their brains. Some humans are always hunting for birds. Sometimes, as in a newly published research study, these sometimes occurrences combine in provocative ways. The study is: “Brain Size and the Risk of Getting Shot,” Anders Pape Møller, Johannes Erritzøe, Biology Letters, vol. 12, no. 11, November […]
An ambiguous abbreviation of a journal title: “J Anal Methods Chem”
The PubMed database abbreviates the names of many research journals. Sometimes these abbreviations lend themselves to confusion. Sometimes that confusion can, maybe, be willful. Here’s an example, in a citation of a chemistry study: Classification of Coffee Beans by GC-C-IRMS, GC-MS, and (1)H-NMR. J Anal Methods Chem. 2016;2016:8564584 Authors: Arana VA, Medina J, Esseiva P, Pazos D, […]
The Bureaucracy Club Endures
The Bureaucracy Club is an organization of bureaucrats, by bureaucrats, for bureaucrats. The Bureaucracy Club is dedicated to the propagation, study, maintenance, enhancement, documentation, and optimization of bureaucracies and bureaucrats. After many years of bureaucratic quietude, The Bureaucracy Club is rousing itself to accept new applications for membership. LACK OF DETAILS is available at the […]