We muse these days, many of us, on the unreliability of our rulers. But that has been the state of things for quite a while now: Complimentary small plastic rulers, being imprecise, inaccurate, flimsy and defaced with advertising, draw only a measured amount of respect from metrologists. In 1994, two metrologists took measures to see […]
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(Video of) A measure of improbability at NIST
Here’s video of the colloquium talk I did a few days ago at NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in Gaithersburg Maryland. The official description: “A Measure of Improbable Research — haphazardly selected samples of Ig Nobel Prize-winning and other research that makes people LAUGH then THINK”. The talk was broadcast live to NIST facilities in […]