They’re bringing the classics to new people!
The people least likely to get one.
What’s the one thing that convinces Indian drivers to slow down?
It’s an evolution thing.
New research shows that obesity has been on the rise for longer than you think.
Was dueling actually a rational act?
Voting for the 2010 Name of the Year contest has begun.
Australia tests performance-based pay for doctors treating diabetics.
For businesses, some kinds of corruption are better than others.
New research indicates that exposure to green products and the purchase of green products have vastly different effects on behavior.
In recent years, the randomized program evaluation has become the gold standard for evaluating development programs – and the bread and butter of many development economists. The evaluations often uncover valuable new information, but are controversial, and can also be prohibitively expensive to implement for small NGO’s.
Peter Robinson interviews Gary Becker about healthcare reform, the future of capitalism, and what this November’s elections will bring.
A new working paper by Jennifer Hunt examines the exodus of women from the science and engineering fields, and upends some popularly accepted wisdom.
Kal Raustiala, a Professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, and Chris Sprigman, a Professor at the University of Virginia Law School, are counterfeiting and intellectual property experts. They have been guest-blogging for us about copyright issues; this week they write about an alternative method of enforcing intellectual property rights.
The latest in weird weaponry.
Black-market smugglers are literally stealing Indonesia’s small islands, including the legendary Krakatoa.
The ClimateGate plot thickens.
Dave Jamieson’s new book (excerpted at Slate) covers the history of the baseball card, including the baseball card bubble of the 1980s and early 1990s.
New Moore Island in the Bay of Bengal, the subject of a long-running dispute between India and Bangladesh, was recently completely submerged by rising sea levels.
March 22 was World Water Day, and two excellent photo essays draw attention to the issue.
The 1989 ivory trade ban has led to government stockpiles of ivory (from seizures/arrests and herd culling), and no legal means of selling the stuff.
New research indicates that dogs and humans have some things in common in the willpower department.
Scottish Opera will soon launch Baby O, a series of concerts for infants.
There’s a new working paper (summary here; PDF here) from Ofer Malamud and Cristian Pop-Eleches called “Home Computer Use and the Development of Human Capital.”
A number of countries have passed naming laws, forbidding citizens from giving their kids certain types of names, but North Korea’s new naming law is more meaningful.
A charter school organization in Arizona offers a glimpse at what the educational system would look like if economists were in charge.
These days, you can do pretty much anything online, except for one: submit your U.S. census forms.
Annamaria Lusardi, one of the leading academic lights of financial literacy, has begun a new Financial Literacy Center.
If you’re trying to avoid mosquito bites, try skipping the beer.
Waiting for the Paris metro just got a lot more comfortable.
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