How to Murder a Complete Stranger and Get Away With It
I don’t actually have the answer, but here’s a link to a very amusing website www.flapart.ca. They sell joke book jackets that you can put over the hardcover book you…
I don’t actually have the answer, but here’s a link to a very amusing website www.flapart.ca. They sell joke book jackets that you can put over the hardcover book you…
…is what the women think. We live in a strange world. (Source: Demographic and Health Surveys, publicly available at www.measuredhs.com. Thanks to Emily Oster for forwarding these statistics to me.)…
…question (http://www.fulltilt-cnn.com) was down. (Back when we wrote a column about Steven Peisner and identity theft, a fake Bank of America site was also summarily disabled, showing that if nothing…
…more recent research. Here is the latest round. bsdetector asked: “Turnabout is fairplay.” Methunk t’was Shakespeare, but alas, no. According to the esteemed reference work, The Yale Book of Quotations,…
…etc. But for the deeper thinkers among you, there is a great “betting” site called www.longbets.com. The wagers there are a little more exotic. Mitch Kapor and Ray Kurzweil, for…
…show. If you have 15-20 minutes to read a draft script and answer opinion questions, please go to http://www.nord-consultants.com/spacefilm/. We need your feedback by August 29 in order to revise…
…a mystery. The obvious first explanation is that someone was cheating. After all, there was a prize pool of $80 million at stake. But the data detectives at www.pokernews.com offer…
…the one to name it. She is the most creative person I’ve ever met. When she isn’t thinking up book titles, her day job is running www.yarnzilla.com, an online and…
(iStockphoto) Okay, okay, that’s not quite the message of a new working paper by Panle Jia Barwick and Parag A. Pathak called “The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study…
…Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio.? You can read?an excerpt here, and?www.lifecycleinvesting.net has downloadable data and calculators that will let you see our diversifying strategy in…
…four years of averaging 97 games a year, the gambling markets at www.tradesports.com project the A’s to win 83 games this year. If there were markets for multiple years in…
…and Sticks is not an extended advertisement for stickK.com or for the value of commitment contracts.? It explores not only how best to pick the right commitment tool, but also…
I just caught this (with a Tivo-induced lag) — Austan Goolsbee on Monday’s Colbert Report: The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Austan Goolsbee www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full…
Photo: Hemera How do people who love salty snacks like their toilet paper to hang? Are fans of carbonated beverage more likely to enjoy horror movies? A new website, www.correlated.org,…
…see the score before I watch because that ruins the game. To solve the problem I created a little website to warn me if the games are bad (www.shouldiwatch.com), but…
Thanks to The Times‘s nice writeup (“Dieting? Put Your Money Where Your Fat Is”), an Internet company that I helped found, www.stickK.com, has been getting a spike in commitment contracts….
…about Realtors is this: someone in New York has finally launched a website, brokerate.com, that allows consumers to rate Realtors in terms of knowledge, courtesy, and effectiveness. I have a…
An amazing website that the guys at Marginal Revolution blogged about. It is called www.scipionus.com. It is a map-based wiki where regular people can insert information geographically about the effects…
…to make progress on this problem is a music video launched by UNICEF. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peUxE_BKcU It is truly amazing to me that this video got made. Not because it will or…
…exactly when and how monetary incentives work. Along the way, we discovered some environments where incentives don’t work at all. The most compelling example of one such environment comes from…
…answers (and rationale) in the comments, or you can visit my survey questionnaire at the link below: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WhichSocialScienceShouldDie P.S. I did not place “anthropology” and “history” as options because of…
Through Innovations for Poverty Action, I am co-Principal Investigator on a randomized trial of the impact of Compartamos, a for-profit microlender in Mexico. Compartamos was the first microcredit organization to…
…enough for mechanics to catch up. If you want to explore our world further, take the Why Axis Challenge: visit www.thewhyaxischallenge.com, post a photo of your copy of The Why…
…four years of averaging 97 games a year, the gambling markets at www.tradesports.com project the A’s to win 83 games this year. If there were markets for multiple years in…
…that it’s addictive and toxic. How much sense does that make? We hear from a regulatory advocate, an evidence-based skeptic, a former F.D.A. commissioner — and the organizers of Milktoberfest….
According to this article in Wired, a man named Dean Oliver is trying to do for basketball what Bill James and Billy Beane did for baseball: create and exploit new…
…for over three days! A free ride in a fancy private jet could provide a little physical and emotional comfort to these heroes. A huge thank-you to all of you…
Sudhir Venkatesh, the amazing sociologist who was my co-author on the gangs research that we write about in Freakonomics, has a great new documentary. It will be showing on WTTW,…
…editions for sale on www.amazon.com (“Amazon”) and music found on new movie DVD’s for sale on Amazon. By examining what is for sale “on the shelf,” the analysis of this…
…www.thewhyaxischallenge.com, post a photo of your copy of The Why Axis, and be entered to win prizes, including a meeting with Uri, John, and Freakonomics author Steven Levitt! Stay tuned…
