Reading Pacific Standard when you should be filing TPS reports? Don’t worry—even serious scientists find ways to avoid working. That’s the takeaway from a report by two British neurologists which finds that the more milk a country drinks, the more likely it is to produce Nobel prizewinners. The letter, from the February issue of Practical Neurology, builds on a previous bit of silly science about Nobel laureates and chocolate consumption. In that study, which I wrote about for NPR, Franz Messerli, a cardiologist at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, plotted the per-capita chocolate ... Read More
