Shanzhai Skyscrapers
…Some mash-up features found on competing phones into a single device. All are cheap. There is a lot to say about shanzhai in China, and we’ll come back to this…
…Some mash-up features found on competing phones into a single device. All are cheap. There is a lot to say about shanzhai in China, and we’ll come back to this…
Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman died in March. In 2021 he talked with Steve Levitt — his friend and former business partner — about his book…
…I thought you would be interested. First a little introduction: Two months ago I purchased a Nook simple touch e-book reader, these gizmos aren’t that popular here in Argentina compared…
…Siege 2? A: I did see Under Siege 2. Eric Bogosian was a great villain, Seagal kicked the tar out of evil terrorists, and a character who had only been…
…look at it hard it is well composed.) Do you do the blotches first and then work around them? A: I don’t do more than a quick squiggle or two…
…the best way to discover the root of sayings. How else can one do it?-by searching manually? By asking ‘experts’? By checking other ‘authoritative’ sources? When Google has digitized all…
It began as a post-war dream for a more collaborative and egalitarian workplace. It has evolved into a nightmare of noise and discomfort. Can the open office be saved, or…
…an environmental-conservation group”] Arctic Melting May Clear Path to Vast Deposits of Oil and Gas [summarizing a Feb. 18 Boston Globe article] Emissions Caps Could Be Ruinous [a letter to…
…vs. environment are fundamentally fascinating. And the implications of Ericsson’s work are very broad. As always, we’ve posted some complementary materials, including a few papers by Ercisson and others working…
…practiced eye are essential to judging authenticity. Mr. O’Connor, a co-editor of the definitive Pollock catalog and a member of the now-disbanded Pollock-Krasner Foundation authentication committee, said “Red, Black and…
…Faviana and companies like it can so readily knock off another firm’s design may seem unfair, and designers do complain about the copies that Faviana and many other firms produce.?…
…They don’t have to be artwork (or even photos of art): No self-portraits or publicity materials please — Levitt has already covered that: (Dubner’s the one on the far right.)…
…of the more fuel-efficient non-hybrid S.U.V.’s on the market, but its combined m.p.g. is 24, which is well below the Prius’ 46. Ignoring the rebound effect (which I blogged about…
…in Dan Gilbert‘s Stumbling on Happiness, which Levitt has discussed before). From the San Francisco Chronicle: A study by credit- and fraud-reporting agency Fair Isaac Corp. reveals that Internet advertisers…
There’s more than meets the eye to the box that stores the pie. Zachary Crockett cracks the lid….
The families of U.S. troops killed and wounded in Afghanistan are suing several companies that did reconstruction there. Why? These companies, they say, paid the Taliban protection money, which gave…
Photo from Notcot.com. I never set out to be anti-penny, but somehow it happened, and I have gone on the record more than a few times arguing that the penny…
…exercise.” So far, they’ve used the Pythagorean Theorem to determine how big a 42-inch TV really is; used percentages to examine environmental issues; and asked whether music can kill you.[%comments]…
…true. (We will happily send some Freakonomics swag to the commenter with the best info on the company’s current status and what brought about its demise.) (Hat tip: Peter Siegelman)…
…and meat printers). Now NASA is funding an Austin, Tex., company that is working on a pizza printer. From CNET: Systems and Materials Research recently received a $125,000 grant from…
…1999 by employing a man named Wayne Davis to bring in his small flock of peregrine falcons. Until Davis came along, the pigeons were a real nuisance. “In the old,…
Takeru Kobayashi revolutionized the sport of competitive eating. What can the rest of us learn from his breakthrough?
…shows the current flight you inquired about and the inbound aircraft’s status. I commute from the midwest to NYC’s airports on a weekly basis. I have commuted to work for…
…where you must acquire a license to drive a car, sell real-estate, or hunt deer, there is no such license (or commensurate training) for raising children. I’m not saying there…
…back to his community. But when you go to the online version of the magazine, Carmelo is nowhere to be found, suspended by NWA indefinitely. Instead you find “The Best…
That’s what I learned these past few days, when I took my 5-year-old son Solomon to visit the Pittsburgh Steelers’ training camp in Latrobe, Pa. Watching a pro football team…
Takeru Kobayashi revolutionized the sport of competitive eating. What can the rest of us learn from his breakthrough?
…focus to be targeted at the right group of individuals is worthy of further consideration. Q. Wow, what a waste of time for him to do this when commercial companies…
The incoming president argues that the economy and the environment are deeply connected. This is reflected in his choice for National Economic Council director — Brian Deese, a climate-policy wonk…
…different ways of doing things. My intuition and experience have given me an understanding; I probably have absorbed way more than any of the other earlier astronauts. [At first] I…
