Saul Newman has written a book about his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research. The book is called Morbid — Debunking Modern Longevity Science. It’s published by MIT Press. (The photo shows Newman with MIT Press’s director, Amy Brand, and the book.) Newman is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London and the University of Oxford. […]
Ig Nobel Prize winner Saul Justin Newman has an essay in today’s New York Times about the research that won him the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize for demography. (The Times did not mention that the research won a prize. The Times did write an extensive report about it, shortly after that prize was awarded.) Newman’s […]
Which (opera) singers tend to live longer – sopranos, contraltos, tenors or basses? This question was formally investigated in 2011 by researchers Abel EL, Kruger MM and Pandya K. of the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, US. Pertinent answers may be found in : Sopranos but not tenors live […]
Some people achieve fame, then live so long that the fame fades and their eventual death goes largely unremarked upon. Those people are not the subjects of this new study: “Death in The New York Times: the price of fame is a faster flame,” C.R. Epstein and R.J. Epstein, QJM, epub 2013. (Thanks to kiltish […]