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...effect. The copycat theory was first conceived by a criminologist in 1912, after the London newspapers' wall-to-wall coverage of the brutal crimes of Jack the Ripper in the late 1800s led to a wave of copycat rapes and murders throughout England. Since then, there has been much research into copycat events - mostly copycat suicides, which appear to be most common - but, taken together, the findings are inconclusive...
...past research found no such link, according to Stack's study. He explains that the studies that were able to find associations were those that tended to involve celebrity death or heavy media coverage - factors that, unsurprisingly, tend to co-occur. "The stories that are most likely to have an impact are ones that concern entertainment and political celebrities. Coverage of these suicides is 5.2 times more likely to produce a copycat effect than coverage of ordinary people's suicides," Stack says. In the month after Marilyn Monroe's death, for example, the suicide rate in the U.S. rose...
...recent article written about me in The Crimson (“The Politics of Condoms,” column, April 16), the impression was given that the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies decided to end the AIDS Prevention Research Project, of which I am director, in response to my recent, controversial comments which questioned condoms as the panacea for AIDS in Africa. That is not the case. Our project is not being continued, but it has been extended beyond its original end-date on a no-cost extension basis...
...such as Naveen N. Sinha, a graduate student, said that they enjoyed the event—and that the food was an especially welcome addition. As a student in microbial sciences, he said that he appreciated the “nice overlap” between his culinary interests and research interests. He mentioned that he likes to buy locally-produced goods, but also that he understood that many Americans might not be able to afford such a luxury. Most of the audience seemed enthused about local food afterwards, swapping stories and recipes and sharing their favorite farmer?...
...campaign contributions, election returns, government spending—by quantifying them. If, like tens of thousands of other readers, you followed Nate Silver’s electoral projections at www.538.com this past fall, you were reading the fruits of modern political science, which has made important contributions to survey research and applied statistics...