There will be lots of improbable science story sharing in fourteen Italian cities this Friday night, September 30, 2022. Stories about real science. Stories filled with mystery, confusion, excitement, and lots of intriguing uncertainty. This is a new part of SHARPER Night in Italy — Friday night, September 30. (What, you may ask, is SHARPER? […]
In the wake of the Ig Nobel Prize-winning studies about whether eating Italian pizza in Italy might lengthen life, comes a new study about Italians who eat chili peppers: “Chili Pepper Consumption and Mortality in Italian Adults,” Marialaura Bonaccio, Augusto Di Castelnuovo, Simona Costanzo, Emilia Ruggiero, Amalia De Curtis, Mariarosaria Persichillo, Claudio Tabolacci, Francesco Facchiano, […]
Wednesday afternoon, the Ig Nobel EuroTour arrives in Catania, Sicily—featuring random promotion, roller-coaster-induced kidney-stone-passing, homosexual necrophiliac ducks, and all sorts of other prize-winning things that make people LAUGH, then THINK. April 3, Wednesday, 4:30 pm—University of Catania, Italy—at CSFNSM – Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della Materia, via S. Sofia 64—Marc Abrahams will talk about […]
Think, if you will, of the pasta. This study demonstrates one way to begin doing that: “Evaluation of environmental impacts in the catering sector: The case of pasta,” Alessandra Fusi, Riccardo Guidetti, Adisa Azapagic, Journal of Cleaner Production, epub 2015. (Thanks to Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Università degli Studi […]