Mikhail Simkin writes about his discovery of a discovery: A Killer Reference I got a request from Journal of Psychology & Psychotherapy to review the paper “Serial Killers Profiling and Target Victims: Is there a connection?” The article looked pretty banal until I got to chapter 2.1 where I read: “Biologically speaking, Heydari et […]
Tag: extinction
Resurrecting an extinct, odd frog, using an Ig Nobel winner’s discovery
Ed Yong reports on Mike Archer‘s ambitious project to resurrect — so to speak — an unusual species of frog that went extinct not long ago. The frog’s oddity was researched, and reported in 1981, by Mike Tyler, who later was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for studying and cataloguing odd smells produced by different frogs. Detail […]
Statistical: tigers
A single statistic, in isolation, sometimes suggests a misleading part of a larger story. A February 12, 2008 Mongabay report supplies an example. We have highlighted the pertinent passages: 23 tigers were killed to supply parts seen in retail outlets surveyed during 2006 in 28 cities and towns across Sumatra, an island in Indonesia. “This […]