Following our Improbable article on ‘Laughter at the Supreme Court‘, we turn now to the implications of ‘Filled Pauses’ at the same institution. A Filled Pause (FP) can be uhm, ah, uh, &etc. The questions are: how often do they crop up, and which of the court’s Justices make the most use of them? And, perhaps […]
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Laughs at the Supreme Court
The groundwork for research into the occurrence of laughter at the US Supreme Court was initially provided by Professor Jay D. Wexler (of Boston University School of Law) in his 2005 article for Green Bag (second series, Volume 9, number 1) entitled : “Laugh Track”. The professor had made the decision to quantify the laughter […]
Orthogonal judged interesting
“Orthogonal” is the word we use on the rare occasions people ask “Are the Ig Nobel Prizes related to the Nobel Prizes?” The answer is: No. They are orthogonal to each other (and if people are still puzzled, we explain what “orthogonal” means). The Washington Post reported (thanks to investigator Tatiana Divens for bringing it […]