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The FREAKest Links: Terrorists, Phones, and Breast Exams Edition

Mirroring Levitt’s thoughts on doctors plotting terrorist attacks, the Wall Street Journal takes an in-depth look at Alan Krueger‘s findings that terrorists tend to come from high-income, high-education families.

David Pogue of the New York Times points out that, in the midst of last week’s iPhone mania, most of us missed T-Mobile’s announcement of a new plan under which all calls within a Wi-Fi network are free.

Via Rebecca Dube at the Globe and Mail: A study of 267,000 women appears to confirm several other long-term studies finding that breast self-exams do absolutely no good in detecting breast cancer, despite the conventional wisdom.


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