Skiing and snowboarding are the kind of sporting activities that can seem like one of…
Oz FlanaganJanuary 7, 2014
Researchers need to publish as much as the Finnish need coffee. With the highest annual…
Carlos Alberto Gómez GrajalesDecember 23, 2013
Last Friday, a student shooting at Arapahoe High School left one classmate in a critical…
Stephanie KovalchikDecember 19, 2013
At The Echo Nest we collect pretty much every bit of data about music we…
Glenn McDonaldDecember 17, 2013
I overheard a conversation with a man representing a Silicon Valley company the other day.…
Cullen HobackDecember 9, 2013
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Alvan Feinstein’s paper ‘Scientific Standards…
Tom FanshaweDecember 5, 2013
Since today is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I want to highlight some…
Dane KorverDecember 3, 2013
Do you know your chance of developing cancer? diabetes? osteoperosis? If not, there is a…
Stephanie KovalchikNovember 29, 2013
It has been a source of comfort for many Americans at Thanksgiving that although they…
Oz FlanaganNovember 26, 2013
After Twitter was successfully floated on the New York Stock Exchange this November, its share…
Oz FlanaganNovember 18, 2013
On October 14, Christina Milian stood under the spotlight with the threat of elimination during…
Stephanie KovalchikNovember 14, 2013
Since the publication of Poor Numbers a healthy debate on the meaning of development statistics…
Morten JervenNovember 12, 2013
Recently, I was let in on a fascinating email conversation that spontaneously began when two…
Oz FlanaganNovember 7, 2013
During the First World War, countries on both sides introduced ‘daylight saving time’ (DST) in…
Michael MernaghNovember 1, 2013
In the 1930s, Pitirim A. Sorokin and J.W. Boldyreff conducted the most interesting experiment1. They…
Mikhail SimkinOctober 28, 2013
Solly Zuckerman (pictured) was meticulous in measuring things to assemble evidence when there was none,…
Thomas KingOctober 17, 2013
The publications marking the transition to a new government chief scientific advisor in Britain give…
Thomas KingOctober 7, 2013
A couple years ago I wrote about an experiment where researchers had hired an actor…
Mikhail SimkinOctober 1, 2013
Can statistics save your life? Well, Google certainly thinks it can. Moreover, the company has…
Carlos Alberto Gómez GrajalesSeptember 30, 2013
