Despite common belief (and some earlier research on the question) that success tends to come early for scientists, a scientist’s single most successful publication is likely to occur at any point in the sequence of papers that she or he publishes. That’s the gist of a new study. The study explains that people in general tend to produce […]
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Does Science Really Advance One Funeral at a Time?
A new study claims to answer an old question. The study’s answer is: probably. The study, done by three young economists, is: “Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?” Pierre Azoulay [pictured here], Christian Fons-Rosen, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, NBER Working Paper No. 21788, December 2015. The authors, at MIT, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the University of […]
Improbable doings in Vienna this coming week
The organizers posted a sneak preview of the ‘sneak preview’ event at the University of Vienna on Thursday evening, January 29: Und hier die nächste Veranstaltung in unserem Rahmenprogramm: Als sneak preview zur Mitternachtseinlage wird Marc Abrahams am Donnerstag, den 29.1., eine seine sehr speziellen Vorlesungen an der Uni Wien halten; auch dies eine Premiere: es handelt sich […]
Luxuriant Hair Club for Scientists™ names 2015 Woman & Man of the Year
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) proudly announces its Woman and Man Of The Year for 2015. The two terrifically-tressed scientists are, respectively, an American researcher who studies microbes that live in paper wasp bodies and nests, and a British researcher who plumbs the mysteries of critical illnesses. Here is thrilling detail about each of them. Woman of the […]