podcast Podcast episode: Rock-solid Certainty? As the final crescendo of the Telling Responsible Stories course at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, my team and I released a podcast episode on how researchers, policy makers, philosophers, and the media deal with scientific uncertainty.
science In science, you can either be funny or credible The science of citation accumulation is not as complex as you might think. In this little post, I summarize some of the interesting research done on the effect that titles have on the number of citations a scientific piece of text receives.
science Answering the existential questions — what is navel fluff? Even wondered... what the hell is this navel fluff? Wonder no more, scientists have gotten to the bottom of this!
science The physical model of pooping in penguins Authors of the research paper: "Anyone (...) must have wondered about the pressure the bird generates."
science How high can a flea really jump? Dog fleas can jump higher than cat fleas. In other news, scientists have the strangest hobbies.
science What to do when you have a drop tower and too much beer What's more dangerous in a fight, full beer bottles or empty beer bottles? And what do physicists do when drunk?
science The ethics of ethicists Ethicists steal more books than other philosophers. Is ethics is studied by those people who are more morally corrupt?
