Further Insight on Book Blurbs
…for blurbs isn’t really consumers at all — it’s bookstore and particularly chain bookstore buyers. Those folks, I am told, want to see endorsements from recognizable (i.e., successful-selling) names, particularly…
…for blurbs isn’t really consumers at all — it’s bookstore and particularly chain bookstore buyers. Those folks, I am told, want to see endorsements from recognizable (i.e., successful-selling) names, particularly…
…say by how much. The campaign also has lists of volunteers, including the names of neighborhood team leaders who were the most active supporters. A donor database has names of…
…includes eight names. Three of these players – Maxiell, McDyess, and Prince – were on the 2007-08 team. As noted, these players aged and so their production had to be…
…it’s true that most popular names start out among the middle and upper classes and then travel downward, it’s also true that some old-fashioned names (we cite Max and Sophie…
…to have their names recognized in perpetuity with an eponymous endowed chair at their university? Is there anything they can do? Yes. There are two things. First, a much larger…
…Still, let’s keep playing along. Besides the names listed above, here are some of the other suggestions I liked: Producer, Miracle Box, Exo-Brain, E-Brain, Byte Box, Tether. I also like…
…in the price per gram. And these names, while colorful, are pretty standardized: newspapers like the LA Weekly run pages of ads that list prices for “White Widow,” “Skywalker OG,”…
…really interesting: I once did an experiment on Amazon by registering a dozen different accounts under different names and email addresses. Then I used each name to click on those…
…other named plane in circulation, the Robert F. Six, which honors the company’s founder. (For those of you who care about first names: according to the Baby Name Wizard, the…
…really true that names matter for getting a resume callback, but don’t matter for long-term life outcomes. Then this probably implies that names matter a little for first impressions, but…
…will not find any LemonJellos in Malaysia.” The blog post referred to new laws in Malaysia that banned a variety of non-standard names for children: Parents will not be able…
…the “fame-seeking daughter of Geneco’s owner,” played by Paul Sorvino. We’ve devoted plenty of time to discussing the effects of individual’s names, but what about the names of companies? De…
…my thought. – Josh Yes, the Steelers and Packers are the only two NFL teams that derive their names from the historical working culture of their towns. In a league…
…divisions of English soccer since 1960 (as noted, the names of these divisions has changed over time). What follows are all the teams who have played at least one season…
…fastest-rising baby names in 2012, according to the Social Security Administration’s annual list of popular baby names. … The boy’s mother, Jaleesa Martin, of Newport, said she will appeal. She…
Real tax reform may or may not ever happen. In the meantime, how about making the current system work a bit better?
Talithia Williams thinks you should rigorously track your body’s data. She and Steve Levitt trade birth stories and bemoan the state of STEM education….
It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us?…
Stephen Dubner appears as a guest on Fail Better, a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories about failure, and ponder the lessons that success…
It used to feel like magic. Now it can feel like a set of cheap tricks. Is the problem with Google — or with us? And is Google Search finally…
It’s impossible to say for sure, but the Lebanese do remarkably well. Why?
…Spaceman Africa.” But these are hopeful times. They’ve collected and verified 64 of the weirdest names they could find. They’re now taking your votes for a winner. (HT: MJS) [%comments]…
Professor invents book-writing machine. Are toddlers masters of data-mining? (Earlier) Study finds teenage fathers at greater risk of producing unhealthy babies. “Britney” plummets from list of most popular baby names….
…Levy. They used a common Freakonomics topic — baby names — to study how far ideas have spread since the advent of the Internet. They found that from the 1970’s…
…on no-shows? Philly.com reports on one restaurant owner’s tactic and its drawbacks: The owner of L.A. restaurant Red Medicine went to social media to Tweet the full names of no-shows…
…In Freakonomics, we wrote that names — at least people’s names — don’t affect life outcome. But it would have been fun to run a little experiment with the WSJ…
As reported by the BBC, Malaysia has banned “unsuitable” first names. An excerpt from the article: Parents will not be able to call their babies after animals, insects, fruit, vegetables…
Before reading further, take a guess at what the five most popular baby names for boys were last year in the U.K. If you can guess No. 2, you are…
Send in your nominees for the Blogging Scholarship Award. Venezuelan government considers regulating baby names. Sure, Michigan lost, but in revenue terms, they still won. (Earlier) Do teacher credentials affect…
