The key to explaining a strange idea, someone somewhere may once have said, is to talk really, really fast. Here is a new example. An explanation is given, in video form, at two speeds. A lengthy text explanation is published in the medical study “Oreo Cookie Treatment Lowers LDL Cholesterol More Than High-Intensity Statin therapy […]
This is the latest in a series of drawings by artist Becky Moon, about her favorite Ig Nobel Prize winners. (This one also harmonizes with the Halloween season.) This one celebrates the Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize that was awarded in the year 2017 to Fernanda Ito, Enrico Bernard, and Rodrigo Torres, for the first scientific report of human […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: The raw-broccoli experiment — What would be the effect on young adults and young children of seeing positive expressions on the faces of strangers who are eating raw broccoli? Katie Edwards at Aston University, UK, together with […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Diet of worms? — The phrase “diet of worms” intrigues people (if it intrigues them at all) in various ways. For historians, it can trigger arguments about a political convocation that happened in the city of […]