Notices by Marc Abrahams (marcabrahams@mstdn.science)

That wording is the same kind of mumbling stuff you'd hear — any year, anywhere, in any crummy bar — from a down-and-out guy who's nursing his fifth beer and muttering about why everyone else in the bar is staying at least ten feet away from him.

In the US medical insurance business, the notion of #woke is getting a whole new meaning: "Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Won’t Pay for the Complete Duration of Anesthesia for Patients’ Surgical Procedures" https://www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2024/11/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-will-not-pay-complete-duration-of-anesthesia-for-surgical-procedures

"Okinawa in Japan is one of these zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death." https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

Tomorrow: the Ig Nobel Prizes... https://improbable.com/2024/09/11/one-day-until-the-ig-nobel/

TICKETS to attend the 34th First annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony in person WILL GO ON SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2024, at noon US eastern time. https://improbable.com/ig/archive/2024-ceremony/

"College presidents and school deans have two jobs: 1) raise money; and 2) find ways to appease students, faculty, administrators, alumni, donors, and the state. The one trait all these interest groups share is a powerful sense of entitlement in telling university presidents and college deans exactly how to do their jobs. None of this is to say that these groups are always wrong in their critiques." https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/you-could-not-pay-me-enough-to-be