This week’s Impressively-Complicated-Chain-of-Logic Press Release of the Week implies that playing video games might cause Alzheimer’s disease. Or, more precisely, it says that no one has ruled out the possibility that playing video games causes or might cause Alzheimer’s disease. It’s complicated. McGill University issued the press release, which says: “For more than a decade now, […]
Sinnott-Armstrong on the Irresistible Impulse Rule
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (a possible case of nominative determinism), holds forth on the morality of the Irresistible Impulse Rule, in this study: “Insanity Defenses,” Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Ken Levy, in Oxford Handbook on the Philosophy of the Criminal Law, p. 299, John Deigh & David Dolinko, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011. It says: “We explicate and evaluate […]
‘ “God knows who figured this out,” he said. But it worked.’
Stanford Magazine (the university’s alumni magazine) profiles their latest Ig Nobel Prize winner. Dr. Ian Humphreys, together with three colleagues, was honored for treating “uncontrollable” nosebleeds, using the method of nasal-packing-with-strips-of-cured-pork: …Typically, doctors would next resort to sealing off the nearby artery. But in this case, doing so could have left the child blind. Running out […]
Creepy from Crawley? Study: Economic Growth Fueled by Male Sex Drive
Massive economic growth comes, in large part, from men’s competition to sexually attract women, sort of, suggests this study: “Sexual selection, conspicuous consumption and economic growth,” Jason Collins, Boris Baer, Ernst Juerg Weber [pictured here], Journal of Bioeconomics, epub May 19, 2015. The authors at the Business School, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, and at […]