Power laws and human society
Granted, it is a bit of a strange name, a power law. Is that a particularly powerful piece of legislation? Not at all. It is a kind of statistical distribution,…
Cui bono and science
There's a new bombshell paper out finding some very obvious findings: Zhang, F. J. (2023). Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11.…
Nobel prize winners are very unlikely to be religious
This page on Wikipedia claims rather surprisingly that: This list comprises laureates of the Nobel Prize who self-identified as atheist, agnostic, freethinker or otherwise nonreligious at some point in their…