15 minutes of statistical fame

My 15 minutes of fame.

The reporting of “medical news” has become an important part of the barrage of information available in print, in electronic media, and, of course, in the 4 billion or so sites on a Google search for health-related topics. My own brush with this phenomenon came about through co-writing an editorial1 on one of the most pedestrian issues that one can imagine: How much water should one consume eac...

Are you ready for your 15 minutes of fame?

Managed care's fifteen minutes of fame.

In a world of sound bites and photo ops where everyone has fifteen minutes of fame, it should not be surprising that infatuation with managed care on the part of politicians, the media, and other hucksters has turned to disillusionment and assault. Overreaction to the shortcomings of real managed care plans is an almost inevitable result of the overselling of previous years. He who prospers as ...

"15 Minutes Of Fame": exploring the temporal dimension of middle pleistocene lithic technology.

This paper addresses the spatial and temporal dimensions of knapping routines through analysis of refit data. Many reconstructions of lithic tool production utilising refit data concentrate upon 'how' a piece of stone is taken apart, and less often consider the 'when' and 'where'. Lower Palaeolithic artefacts are frequently viewed as belonging to simplistic technical systems in which tools were...

15 seconds of fame ∗

“15 seconds of fame” is an interactive installation which every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected person from the audience. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”. The installation detects human faces to crop them from the wide-angle picture of people who are standing in fron...