This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has five segments. Here are bits of each of them: Time for love — Valentine’s Day celebrates coupling. Alan McWilliam tells Feedback about an offer he received, before the most recent Valentine’s Day, from a US-based biotechnology company. It couples charm with other qualities. Alan says: “I […]
This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Corporate determinism — Nominative determinism occurs not just to people, but also to companies. This is evident from an Associated Press report about a lawsuit aimed at a firm named Chopt Creative Salad Company: “The lawsuit filed […]
Mark Benecke, forensic entomologist and international theatrical star, sends this review of the dining facilities at CERN, the vast particle physics laboratory located on and under both sides of the Swiss-French border, partly in Geneva. [This continues a long AIR tradition of reviewing dining facilities at science research facilities.] Two of the restaurants (for U.S. […]
The Journal of Food Science has a nice essay today (October 16, 2023) about the Ig Nobel Prizes. We take the liberty of reproducing it here: EDITORIAL Ig Nobel awards This month’s topic will be a little different, although I promise to bring the discussion back to peer review next month, as we look back […]