A further advance in the campaign to find meaning and importance in a person’s relative finger lengths: “2D:4D Asymmetry and Gender Differences in Academic Performance,” John V.C. Nye, Gregory Androuschak, Desirée Desierto [pictured here], Garett Jones, Maria Yudkevich, PLoS One. 2012;7(10):e46319 “We provide the first evidence of a non-linear, quadratic, relationship between 2D:4D [the relative […]
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Sandcastles in academia (part 3 – building and mobilities)
Following along from the question ‘What’s the point of building a sandcastle?‘ we might perhaps go on to ask, ‘What exactly is a sandcastle?’ Authors Professor Michael Haldrup, and Professor Jonas Larsen of the Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark, give explanations in their essay […]
Long-term results: Should You Trade Stocks Randomly?
The Ig Nobel Prize-winning Italian researchers who demonstrated the benefits, for organizations, of promoting people at random have turned their analytical weapons on a new target. Their new study examines what happens over the long term if one randomly, rather than systematically, chooses stocks: “Are random trading strategies more successful than technical ones?” A.E. Biondo, […]
Putrefaction of Diogenes Postponed
If you read only one scholarly article about the putrefaction of Diogenes postponed, perhaps that article should be: “The Putrefaction of Diogenes Postponed: Memento mori in the work of Robert O. Lenkiewicz (1941-2002),” M.A . Penwill, Performance Research, vol. 15, no. 1 March 2010 , pp. 110-22. DOI: 10.1080/13528165.2010.485771. BONUS: The Lenkiewicz Book Project centers […]