Paul Raeburn writes, in the Knight Science Journalism Tracker: It’s gripping TV, there’s no question about it. The Today Show, with its new medical correspondent, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, launched a week-long series Monday showing patients undergoing surgical procedures live on television. In the first episode, Dr. Nancy (as [Today Show host] Meredith Viera calls her; […]
Tag: Death
Televised warning about TV and death
Does watching a televised media briefing about a study that asks “Is sitting in front of the TV shortening your life?” shorten your life? Watch a televised media briefing by the Australian Science Media Centre, and maybe you’ll find out. Their press release says: MEDIA BRIEFING: TV time may cut life short Is sitting in […]
Detroit Doctors: D for Death
Two doctors in Detroit say the letter “D’ foreshadows death: “Athletes, Doctors, and Lawyers with First Names Beginning with ‘D’ Die Sooner,” Ernest L. Abel and Michael L. Kruger, Death Studies, vol. 34, no. 1, January 2010 , pp. 71-81 The authors, at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, report: “a possible explanation for the association […]
Slemrod sees US tax/death experiment
Ig Nobel Prize winner Joel Slemrod (of the University of Michigan) celebrates/rues/assesses a grand US government experiment that will test his prize-winning theory: A few years ago I called Marc Abrahams offering to return my 2001 Ig Nobel Prize in economics (won jointly with Wojciech Kopczuk [of Columbia University). Our prize-winning research showed that when […]