Wrong Body Parts / Sinus Fiction / Possibility Studies

This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has three segments. Here are bits of each of them: Wrong, wrong, wrong — The Journal of Patient Safety has a new report called “Insurance claims for wrong-side, wrong-organ, wrong-procedure, or wrong-person surgical errors: A retrospective study for 10 years“. Something is a little off even with […]

Recent progress in Quidditch studies (part 1)

For those interested in following recent academic attention afforded to Quiddich may we recommend, Quidditch : Impacting and Benefiting Participants in a Non-Fictional Manner (in the Journal of Sport and Social Issues December 7, 2014) by professor Adam Cohen (Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA) and professor Jon Welty Peachey  (University of Illinois, Champaign, USA). “This […]