Pramit Bhattacharya writes, in the Hindustan Times: The truth behind India’s new GDP numbers It is an open secret that India’s new gross domestic product (GDP) series has flummoxed most observers of the Indian economy. The new numbers seem completely out of sync with other economic indicators… As an analysis of 189 nations over 33 […]
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A celebration of Italy’s Ig Nobel Prize winners
NanoPress published a fond profile of all the Italian winners of the Ig Nobel Prize: “IG Nobel italiani: i vincitori di tutte le edizioni“. Here is one of them, 2013 Ig Nobel Physics Prize co-winner Alberto Minetti: Throughout Italy, people will be staying up late to watch the live webcast of this year’s Ig Nobel […]
Smelov’s investigation of HPV on toilet seats in international airports
Lead author Smelov and colleagues write, in this letter to a medical journal, about a careful investigation that may (and may not) have small or nonexistent implications: “Are human papillomavirus DNA prevalences providing high-flying estimates of infection? An international survey of HPV detection on environmental surfaces,” Vitaly Smelov [pictured here], Carina Eklund, Laila Sara Arroyo […]
Ig Nobel events in Italy
Join us for Ig Nobel events in Perugia and Rome, Italy: PERUGIA: Saturday, September 28, 9:00 pm. Perugia Science Fest, Sala di Notari. Science journalist Silvia Bencivelli will introduce and dialogue with Marc Abrahams. The evening features Ig Nobel Prize winners Alberto Minetti (new Italian Ig Nobel winner!) and Kees Moeliker (homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck). [PREVIEW] ROME: Tuesday, […]