Sentences with phrase «improbable research»

Note that the Guardian writer who did a piece on this screed is the editor of the «Annals of Improbable Research and organiser of the Ig Nobel prize.»

As editor and cofounder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research, Abrahams is clearly up to this brain - straining task.

FEEDBACK»S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel prizes, were handed out on 2 October at Harvard University by three Nobel laureates and the editors of the Annals of Improbable Research.

This year's ceremony, as always presided over by Marc Abrahams (editor of Improbable Research, the science humor magazine), paid recognition to scientific research «that makes people laugh, and then think.»

Here's a comforting thought for any scientist feeling overlooked by the Nobel jurists this month: At least you didn't win an Ig Nobel, the spoof prize given by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.

FEEDBACK»S favourite awards, the Ig Nobel prizes, were handed out on 18 September at Harvard University by Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research.

DESPITE the departure of most of its staff last year to form the Annals of Improbable Research, The Journal of Irreproducible Results continues to be published.

Not exact matches

For example, Rosen's firm Accountability Research argues that IFRS makes it easy for unscrupulous companies to recognize revenues when cash has not yet been received — and even in cases where collection may be highly improbable.

In Crystal Lake, the idea of creating a dog park was researched this spring but deemed improbable, at least for now.

With this group of improbable and diverse characters, Heilemann and Halperin serve up a spicy hors d'oeuvre of observations, revelations and allegations, based on detailed research, collections of rumours from the campaign trail - some of it hard to authenticate.

Indeed, he notes, it's improbable that all of the previous genetic studies of red deer, including those living throughout Europe today, wouldn't have picked up any of the haplotypes he and his team identified in their new research.

However, Steven Henikoff, a biochemist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, calls this scenario «highly improbable,» pointing out that new centromeres are evolving all the time, and not from telomeres.

There's nothing laughable about Sharp's work, but she is doing some improbable, informal research of her own: namely, exploring the possibilities of new forms of science communication and science careers.

Berkeley's David Kirp dug deep into how and why early education worked in Union City, N.J. Kirp explained in Improbable Scholars that Union City used those research - based, early education reforms to turn around a school system that had been one of New Jersey's worst.

Improbable though it may seem, research by University of Chicago psychologists has shown that people are less prone to biases like excessive aversion to losses and more apt to make systematic and rational decisions when a choice is presented to them in a foreign language rather than their native tongue.

Etienne is a founding editor of the architecture, landscape, and political economy journal Scapegoat, and he is currently working with the design collective 1 / X to launch a new experimental research platform, MTLO studio, through the Institute of Improbable Poromechanics in Detroit.