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…on one, electric propulsion may finally be poised to break out. Or is it? To help find the answer I called in my resident expert — my brother, Brad Morris…
…on one, electric propulsion may finally be poised to break out. Or is it? To help find the answer I called in my resident expert — my brother, Brad Morris…
…Kitayama 2002; Morris & Peng 1994; Norenzayan et al. 2002a; Van Boven et al. 1999), particularly when?situational information is made salient (Choi & Nisbett 1998). Grossmann and Varnum (2010) provides…
Perhaps naming laws aren’t such a bad thing, at least in cases like this: D’AlCapone AlPacino Morris was arrested by the U.S. Marshal’s Service last year on charges of murder,…
…Another student explained the effects of loss aversion on the housing market. Classic topics like externalities, free-riding, expressed vs. revealed preferences, and regression analysis (look for Eric Morris and Emily…
…way he does. In the current issue of Psychological Science, Loran F. Nordgren of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, along with his co-authors Mary-Hunter Morris of Harvard Law School,…
…elsewhere. And in return, the Bobcats received the following players (transaction details here): Matt Carroll, Erick Dampier, Eduardo Najera, Dante Cunningham, Sean Marks, Joel Przybilla, Morris Peterson, D.J. White, Corey…
…one Gina Luck, who is plainly very talented, and whose name is nearly as extraordinary as that of Georgia Cool, one of our very favorite people at the William Morris…
…excellent folks from Penguin U.K. and William Morris U.K., and we had some beers in Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, a subterranean pub said to be one of the oldest in…
…their help, what can we speculate about the causes for and durability of the mysterious phenomenon of peak travel? More next time. (HT: Brad Morris and Melinda Burns of Miller-McCune)…
…think there’s an attractive version of the carbon tax if somebody thought about its design,” says one decision scientist. Good news for Steve Levitt, Eric Morris, and Greg Mankiw. [%comments]…
…City KWIT-FM Decorah KLNI-FM Idaho Pocatello KISU-FM St. Maries KXJO-FM Illinois Chicago WBEZ-FM Morris WBEQ-FM Kankakee WBEK-FM Indiana Elkhart WVPE-FM Hagerstown WBSH-FM Fort Wayne WBOI-FM Portland WZJR-FM Evansville WNIN-FM Crawfordsville…
A reader from Wadsworth, Ohio, named Tom Morris writes with an idea. He is a lawyer and, he says, and an “occasional acting judge in a small town”: In my…
| Leave it to documentary filmmaker (and occasional New York Times blogger) Errol Morris to make the connection in this brilliant commercial. (HT: Jeff Behrens) [%comments]…
…the Dictionary of American Proverbs, it dates at least as far back as colonial statesman Gouverneur Morris in 1778. Do any readers have any other quotations whose origins they would…
(Photo: Russ Morris) We should probably start a Strange Name Hall of Fame at some point to chronicle all the weird, wonderful, terrible names that readers have passed along to…
…Michel and Shana Kelly, of the William Morris Agency). Most interestingly, Sarah Christie was hobbled by a sledgehammer injury to her toe — yes, a sledgehammer injury — and I…
…me out of this! MR. ROARK: But Eric Morris, your fantasy was for a more healthy political give-and-take about transportation policy in America, an end to wasteful transportation spending, and…
…economist expert witnesses. Teece has personally testified in cases concerning Napster, Oracle, and Philip Morris, and in 2005 earned nearly $3 million for his legal work. “I won’t get many…
As a former top adviser to presidents Clinton and Obama, he believes in the power of the federal government. But as former mayor of Chicago, he says that cities are…
As you may have read, the Obama administration is moving toward giving California approval to cut greenhouse gas emissions by mandating better fuel economy. The California regulations should mean 40…
In my last post, I blogged about my (mostly) favorable reaction to California’s program to increase fuel economy. But for the record, I should mention a few petty details —…
It wasn’t easy picking the finalists for our “Worst Roads in America” competition, but our intrepid judges Genevieve Giuliano and Mohja Rhoads, top transportation scholars at the University of Southern…
Photo: respres We at U.C.L.A. hear from reporters a lot, and they are often looking for a few quotes to help write a familiar script. In it, Los Angeles is…
Aging carries a risk of losing our memory, focus, and ability to take care of ourselves and others. Does leaving the workforce worsen that risk? We investigate the research. And…Bapu…
There is strong evidence that exercise is wildly beneficial. There is even stronger evidence that most people hate to exercise. So if a pill could mimic the effects of working…
Nearly 2 percent of America is grassy green. Sure, lawns are beautiful and useful and they smell great. But are the costs — financial, environmental and otherwise — worth the…
The gist: we spend billions on end-of-life healthcare that doesn’t do much good. So what if a patient could forego the standard treatment and get a cash rebate instead?
Here’s a website worth checking out if you own a good pair of shoes and don’t mind using them once in a while. It’s called Walk Score and it gauges…
We spend billions on end-of-life healthcare that doesn’t do much good. So what if a patient could forego the standard treatment and get a cash rebate instead?
She might not be a household name, but Suzanne Gluck is one of the most powerful people in the book industry. Her slush pile is a key entry point to…