Dogs’ Favorite Garbage In this Pocket-Sized episode #1003, Marc Abrahams shows an unfamiliar research study to Melissa Franklin. Dramatic readings and reactions ensue. The research mentioned in this episode is featured in the special Blushing issue (vol. 19, #2) of the Annals of Improbable Research magazine. Remember, our Patreon donors, on most levels, get access to each podcast episode […]
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When an economist talks rubbish
When economists talk economics, some of them talk rubbish. Few mean it as plainly, as directly, as Alexi Savov [pictured here]. Savov wrote a study called Asset Pricing with Garbage, which filled 24 pages of the Journal of Finance early in 2011. To Savov, garbage is valuable not only for its own worth, but because, in […]
Graphene From Garbage (and Girl Scout cookies and bugs)
Biscuits, rubbish and bugs in Texas raise hopes that Britain will grow a lucrative new techology-based empire soon, rather than just eventually. This is all about getting usable amounts of graphene – the two-dimensional form of carbon. An American experiment, so goofy-sounding that it has drawn little attention, points towards a cheap way of obtaining […]
Garbage In / Garbaged Out presaged
The principle of “Garbage In / Garbage Out” dates (though not in those specific words) to the mid-1800s. Charles Babbage pioneered many aspects of programmable computing. In his book Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864, Longman and Co.), Babbage said: On two occasions I have been asked,—”Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into […]
Garbage and Fraudulent Financial Reporting
Garbage In/Garbage Out: A Critique of Fraudulent Financial Reporting: 1987–1997 (the COSO Report) and the SEC Accounting Regulatory Process,” Abraham J. Briloff, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 12, no. 2, April 2001, pp. 125–48 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cpac.2001.0458). The author, at the City University of New York, reports: “According to traditional wisdom, the efficiency of a sanitation department […]