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Introduction
Below are the links to Derek Abbott's engagement with popular print media that are maintained on this wiki page. The wiki concept is exploited, for the purpose of quickly updating the information with ease. To return to the previous page, click the "back" button on your browser or to return to the Abbott Homepage scroll down to the links at the bottom of this page. If you see any errors feel free to edit this page yourself.
2016
[1] Lisa Zyga, "Why too much evidence can be a bad thing," Physics Org, January 4, 2016.
[2] Felicity Nelson, "Research reveals the problem with overwhelming evidence," Lawyers Weekly, January 13, 2016.
[3] David Ellis, "Overwhelming evidence? It's probably a bad thing," Physics Org, January 12, 2016.
[4] Stephen Luntz, "When too much evidence can be bad," IFL Science, January 16, 2016.
[5] Staff Reporter, "Nuclear Power is not the answer," Global Research, January 19, 2016.
[6] Dana Dovey, "Unanimous agreement is improbable, and usually a clear indication that something is wrong: too good to be true," Medical Daily, January 19, 2016.
[7] Dorairajan Balasubramanian, "Lies, damned lies and statistics," The Hindu, January 25, 2016.
[8] Laura Moss, "Why do languages have different sounds for the same animals?" Mother Nature Network, February 23, 2016.
[9] Dani Cooper, "Accuracy of criminal identification may be reduced if all witnesses agree" Science News, March 23, 2016.
2015
[10] Doug Robertson, "Forensic experts mount new case to exhume body of Somerton Man to establish his identity," Adelaide Advertiser, April 14, 2015, p. 10.
[11] Leesa Smith, "Mysterious dead body known as 'Somerton Man' that washed up on a beach 67 years ago with a strange note in his trouser pocket will be exhumed," Daily Mail, April 15, 2015.
[12] Derek Abbott, "T-rays to the rescue," International Innovation, Vol. 175, 2015, pp. 60–62.
[13] Derek Abbott, "Solving the Somerton mystery," [Adelaide Advertiser], May 25, 2015.
[14] Lynton Grace, "Somerton Man mystery New details revealed of Jo Thomson nurse in the case," The Courier Mail, May 29, 2015.
[15] Lynton Grace, "Nursing a mysterious secret," Adelaide Advertiser, May 30, 2015, p. 29.
[16] Liam Quinn, "Was Somerton Man a US spy who had a secret love child with an Adelaide nurse?," Daily Mail, May 31, 2015.
[17] Lisa Zyga, "After years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a mystery (Part 1: History and Code)," Physics Org, June 2, 2015.
[18] Lisa Zyga, "After years of forensic investigation, Somerton Man's identity remains a mystery (Part 2: DNA, isotopes, and autopsy)," Physics Org, June 3, 2015.
[19] Gary Nunn, "How to Sneeze in Japanese," Sydney Morning Herald, Sept 4, 2015.
[20] Uri Friedman, "How to snore in Korean," The Atlantic, Nov 25, 2015.
[21] Stacy Conradt, "The Mysterious Death of the Somerton Man," Mental Floss, Nov 30, 2015.
[22] Staff Reporter, "David Dewhurst Award," Engineers Australia, October, 2015.
2014
[23] Lynton Grace, "South Australia's X-Files: Part 2 - the Somerton Man mystery and the secrets of Adelaide's tunnels," Adelaide Advertiser, June 9, 2014.
[24] Derek Abbott, "Neuromorphic engineering: neuromimetic computation for understanding the brain," IEEE Life Sciences, June, 2014.
[25] Lynton Grace, "Has part of the mysterious Somerton Man code been cracked?" Adelaide Advertiser, July 3, 2014.
[26] Peter Butt, "Somerton Man," Catcher Magazine, Vol. 1, October, 2014, p. 6.
[27] Gary Nunn, "Why do pigs oink in English," The Guardian, November 18, 2014.
[28] Lisa Zyga, "Attack on classical cryptography system raises security questions," Physics Org, December 17, 2014.
[29] Ganar perdiendo "la paradoja de Parrondo y sus aplicaciones, por Juan M. R. Parrondo," Anxo Sánchez, December 19, 2014.
2013
[30] Derek Abbott, "Detection tool probes ancient text," The Daily Telegraph, February 21, 2013.
[31] Ashley Hall, "Software solves author puzzle," ABC News, February 21, 2013.
[32] [Staff reporter], "New findings on debated authorship," esciencenews.com, February 22, 2013.
[33] [Staff reporter], "New findings on debated authorship," Telecommunications weekly, March 13, 2013.
[34] Emily Watkins, "After 65 years, new picture could reveal unknown man's identity," www.news.com.au, July 16, 2013.
[35] [Staff reporter], "Trapping T-rays for better security scanners," Science Daily, July 11, 2013.
[36] [Staff reporter], "Is mathematics invented or discovered?," www.huffingtonpost.com, October 9, 2013.
[37] Trent Dalton, "Six degrees of separation," The Weekend Australian Magazine, October 26–27, 2013.
[38] James Fettes, "Professor's 15-year search for answers seeks to crack the secret code to the death of the 'Somerton man' found on an Adelaide beach," Herald Sun, October 29, 2013.
[39] [Staff reporter], "Painting picture of Somerton Man," The Adelaide Advertiser, October 30, 2013.
[40] Renato Castello, "New twist in Somerton Man mystery as fresh claims emerge," Sunday Mail, November 23, 2013.
[41] Renato Castello, "I fear mum poisoned the Somerton Man," The Adelaide Advertiser, November 24, 2013.
[42] Renato Castello, "Liberals: We will exhume Somerton Man's body in bid to identify him," Sunday Mail, November 30, 2013.
[43] Renato Castello, "Somerton mans body could still be exhumed," The Adelaide Advertiser, December 1, 2013.
2012
[44] [Staff reporter], "Wickedictionary," Loughborough University Alumni Magazine, Vol. 25, 2012, p. 26.
[45] Diana Lutz, "Finding solutions to Achilles’ heel of renewable energy: intermittency ," Washington University in St Louis, March 15, 2012.
[46] Emily Watkins, "New link in death of Somerton man," Adelaide Sunday Mail, April 1, 2012.
[47] Michael Milnest, "DNA bid to give mystery man a name," The Adelaide Advertiser, July 28, 2012.
2011
[48] Peter McClintock, "Quantum aspects of life," Contemporary Physics, Jan–Feb, 2011, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 71–73.
[49] Tom Kibble, "Quantum aspects of life," Journal of Quantum Information, Feb 18, 2011, pp. 1427–1432.
[50] MacGregor Campbell, "Killer codes," New Scientist, May 21, 2011, pp. 42–45.
[51] Rob Black, "Solar-Thermal is best mix," The Observer, June 4, 2011, p. 22.
[52] Mark Buchanan, "Geometric intuition," Nature Physics, Vol. 7, June, 2011, p. 442.
[53] [Staff Reporter], "Wreath for remembrance," Canberra Times, August 30, 2011.
[54] Mike Peake, "The mystery of the Somerton man," FHM, Vol. 161, September 1, 2011.
[55] Nazary Nebeluk, "Abbott's "Wickedictionary" proves anything but wicked," The Pace Press (New York), Vol. 63, No. 4, October 5, 2011, p. 8.
[56] [Staff reporter], "A comical update to devils dictionary," M2Communications, October 10, 2011.
[57] Allen Pierleoni, "Abbott's 'Wickedictionary', The Sacramento Bee, October 10, 2011.
[58] [Staff reporter], "Celebrating 100 years since Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary, author Derek Abbott releases a comical, entertaining update called The Wickedictionary," International Business Times, October 11, 2011.
[59] Emily Watkins, "Rau refuses to dig up body of unknown man found dead at Somerton Beach," Sunday Mail, October 15, 2011.
[60] Emily Watkins, "Exhumation denied we may never know," Sunday Mail, October 16, 2011, p. 37.
[61] [Staff reporter], "Abbott's 'Wickedictionary', Mayfair, Vol 46, No. 13, 2011, p. 27.
[62] Emily Watkins, "Is British seaman's identity card clue to solving 63-year-old beach body mystery?," Sunday Mail, November 20, 2011.
2010
[63] Tom Kibble, "Quantum aspects of life edited by Derek Abbott, Paul CW Davies and Arun K Pati," International Journal of Quantum Information, Vol. 8, No. 8, 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219749910006939
[64] Miguel Sanjuan, "Stochastic resonance. From suprathreshold stochastic resonance to stochastic signal quantization," Contemporary Physics, 2010, pp. 448–449.
[65] Peter Seligman, "letter to the editor," The Age , April 12, 2010.
[66] Ian Segal, "There was a mööcow coming down along the road," The New Yorker , April 22, 2010.
[67] [Staff reporter], "Cancer drugs offer new hope for Crohn's disease and sarcoidosis," Science Daily , December 5, 2010.
[68] Vlatko Vedral, "Quantum aspects of life," American Journal of Physics, December 12, 2010, Vol. 78, No. 12, pp. 1435–1436.
2009
[69] Michael Levin, "Quantum Aspects of Life," The Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2009, pp. 525–529.
[70] Candy Gibson, "Students aim to crack 60-year-old mystery," The Adelaidean, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2009, p. 9.
[71] [Staff reporter], "Plan to power the whole world," The Advertiser, July 14, 2009, p. 18.
[72] Penelope Debelle, "A body, a secret pocket and a mysterious code," The Advertiser, August 1, 2009, p. W14.
[73] Lisa Zyga, " Winning while losing: new strategy solves 'two-envelope'," PhysOrg.com, August 18, 2009.
[74] Anna Salleh, " Scientists crack 'two-envelope' problem," ABC Science, August 5, 2009.
[75] Lisa Zyga, "How a solar-hydrogen economy could supply the world's energy needs,"PhysOrg.com, August 24, 2009.
[76] Helga H. Guðmundsson, "Þekkir þú þennan mann?," Skakki Turninn, October 12, 2009, pp. 19–27.
2008
[77] Greg Smith, "Cutting through the animal b-a-a-bel," Toronto Star, January 20, 2008.
[78] Belle Dumė, "Radio-controlled sperm 'tap' turns off vasectomies," New Scientist, January 28, 2008.
[79] [Staff reporter], "Remote-controlled sperm 'tap' may offer reversible vasectomy," Thaindian News, January 29, 2008.
[80] Wissen Verhütung, "Ferngesteuertes Penis-Ventil soll Samen stoppen," Die Welt, January 31, 2008.
[81] Pat Hagan, "Vasectomy you can switch on and off at the push of a button," Daily Mail, February 5, 2008, p. 44.
[82] [Staff reporter], "Vasectomies to be a thing of the past," United News of India, February 5, 2008.
[83] [Staff reporter], "Remote-control contraception," The Daily Telegraph, February 6, 2008.
[84] [Staff reporter], "Zip..zap..zzz," The Sun, February 6, 2008, p. 7.
[85] Louise Hall, "Remote control birth control," The Sydney Morning Herald, February 10, 2008.
[86] Louise Hall, "It's the vasectomy off-switch," The Age, February 10, 2008.
[87] Louise Hall, "Remote control birth control," Brisbane Times, February 10, 2008.
[88] Billy Adams, "Pass the remote - for the kids' channel," New Zealand Herald, February 11, 2008.
[89] Lynn Lister, "‘On-off’ vasectomy for men," Independent Newspapers (UK), March 8, 2008. p. e110.
[90] [Staff reporter], "Male contraceptive, remote-control birth control," The Advertiser, June 19, 2008, p. 29.
[91] Clair Weaver, "Vasectomy you can turn off," Sunday Telegraph, June 22, 2008, p. 30.
[92] Helen Crompton, "Making more of nature," The West Australian, June 24, 2008, p. 5.
[93] [Staff reporter], "The new inventors," The Advertiser, June 25, 2008, p. 4.
[94] Liz Hollis, "Sperm warfare," The Times, September 20, 2008, p. 4.
[95] Nathan Bevan, "Fobbed off by de-vice," Wales on Sunday, September 28, 2008, p. 16.
[96] Nik Howe, "Remote control sperm—contraception innovations," Health and Wellbeing, September 22, 2008.
[97] Simon Webster, "It's hip to get the snip," Sydney Morning Herald, September 29, 2008.
2005
[98] Bernadette Nunn, "The world of T-rays," ABC Asia Pacific, June, 2005.
[99] [Staff reporter], "Nominee for award," The Advertiser, July 19, 2005, p.24.
[100] [Staff reporter], "Is Derek Abbott our science "Idol"Nominee," Adelaide University, July 15, 2005.
[101] David Ellis, "The whole picture: T-rays excite the imagination," Lumen Adelaide University, Winter, 2005, p.2–5.
[102] Paul Lloyd, "The future science class," The Advertiser, December 31, 2005, p.W04.
[103] ARC Annual Report on The National T-ray Facility, ARC Annual Report, December, 2005, p.49.
2004
[104] Jill Pengelley, "Adelaide sleep expert to keep US army alert," The Advertiser, August 12, 2004, p.26.
[105] [Staff reporter], "T-rays to detect WMDs cancer," ABC News Online, December 14, 2004.
[106] [Staff reporter], "Cutting edge technology discovered a century ago to be turned on terrorists," Agence France-Presse, December 14, 2004.
[107] [Staff reporter], "T-rays for terrorists," Science Alert, December 14, 2004.
[108] Heather Catchpole, "T-ray vision sees through clothes," ABC Science, December 15, 2004.
[109] Feleta Teo, "Device to track terrorist," Papua New Guinea–Courier, December 15, 2004, p.8.
[110] [Staff reporter], "T-rays to tackle skin cancer deaths" Australian Medical Association, December 16, 2004.
[111] [Staff reporter], "Airport staff can now peep through your clothes!" The Hindustan Times Ltd, December 16, 2004.
[112] [Staff reporter], "T-rays for tumours" Science Alert, December 16, 2004.
[113] [Staff reporter], "T-rays: Next step in science evolution," Aljazeera.net, December 22, 2004.
[114] Nick Carne, "T-rays open window to better care," The Independent Weekly, December 19–25, 2004, p. 3.
2002
[115] Adrian Cho, "Everyones a winner," New Scientist, Jan 5, 2002, p.13.
[116] David Nankervis, "Smart homes bring sci-fi fantasy to life," Sunday Mail, July 14, 2002.
[117] Chiu Fan Lee and Neil Johnson, "Let the quantum games begin," Physics World, October, 2002, pp. 25–29.
[118] Howard Salkow, "More teaching success for Derek," Adelaidean, December, 2002, p.8.
2001
[119] Erica Klarreich, "Playing both sides," The Sciences, February, 2001, pp. 25–29.
[120] R. Dean Astumian, "Gamblers paradox," Scientific American, July, 2001, p. 62.
2000
[121] Sherill Nixon, "SA scientists find a winning way from loser's games," Australian Associated Press, January 5, 2000.
[122] Sandra Blakeslee, "Paradox in game theory: Losing strategies that win," The New York Times, January 25, 2000, p. F5.
[123] Monica Salomone, "The turn out to join two negative things can be positive," El Pais Digital, January, 2000.
[124] [Staff reporter], "Losing to win," Science News, Vol. 157, No. 3, January 15, 2000, p. 47.
[125] David Ellis, "Gambling study show it's good to be bad," The Adelaidean, February 14, 2000, p. 4.
[126] Herve Ratel, "Who win loses," Avenir Sciences, Vol. 638, April, 2000.
[127] Sherrill Nixon, "Lady Luck: treat her bad and still be glad," The Age, July, 2000, p.4.
[128] Joachim Laukenmann, "Wer zweimal verliert, gewinnt," Sonntags Zeitung, July 2, 2000, p. 79.
[129] Stephen Luntz, "Gambling on mistakes," Australasian Science, August 9, 2000, Vol. 27, No. 7, p. 9.
[130] Rob Morrison, "Cutting the noise out of heartbeats," Science Daily, August 30, 2000.
1999
[131] [Staff reporter], "Inventive minds," Adelaide Advertiser, June 26, 1999, p. 36.
[132] Peter V. E. McClintock, "Random fluctuations: Unsolved problems of noise," Nature News & Views, September 2, 1999, pp. 23–25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/43331
[133] Javier Ochoa, "The paradox of Parrondo," Gaceta Complutense, October, 1999.
[134] Philip Ball, "Good news for losers," Nature Science Update, December 23, 1999, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/news991223-13
1998
[135] [Staff reporter], "T-radiation threatens to cut X-rays to the bone," The Australian, May 5, 1998, p. 44.
[136] Kurt Moore, "Swarming satbots," World and I, Aug, 1998, p. 150.
1994
[137] Nina Hall, "Superconductors bearing gifts," The Observer, September 4, 1994.
[138] Roy Szweda, "New retinal chip developed," Biosensors & Bioelectronics, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1994, p 6.
1993
[139] Wilson da Silva, "New microchip said to give machines bionic vision," Reuters News, November 10, 1993.
[140] [Staff reporter], "Robots may soon be able to see as well as bees," Singapore Press Holdings Limited, November 16, 1993.
[141] [Staff reporter], "Robots may see like a bee?," The Globe and Mail Toronto, November 17, 1993, p. B8.
