The Politics of Amniocentesis
…Palin’s reason for doing the test was early planning, is that she kept not only the Down syndrome news a secret from her own children, but even the pregnancy itself….
…Palin’s reason for doing the test was early planning, is that she kept not only the Down syndrome news a secret from her own children, but even the pregnancy itself….
Good news (for us at least): our new book is done! It’s called Think Like a Freak. It will be published on May 13; but you can pre-order now on…
…or Barnes&Noble.com: For $10,000 to $15,000, you, too, can be a best-selling author. New York public-relations firm Ruder Finn says it can propel unknown titles to the top of rankings…
…released a rejoinder to our analysis, available here. Further coverage: Lester Munson at ESPN.com, a less flattering analysis at MLB.com, and another piece at ESPN.com (leading to hundreds of comments)….
Also: are the most memorable stories less likely to be true?
According to this squib in the New York Times (fourth item down), the newest selection in Oprah Winfrey’s book club will be announced on Wednesday, March 28. Here is the…
Changing the clocks has been linked to car accidents and heart attacks. This week, Bapu Jena sheds some light on the damage we might be doing by springing forward and…
…she has committed suicide by hanging herself. Since thesmokinggun.com showed that he hadn’t spent three months in jail, one might wonder whether the suicide is a fabrication as well. So…
Why are humans so eager for magic-bullet solutions? Can you explain how a pen works? And how does Angela feel about being forever branded “the grit lady”?…
Dubner and Levitt answer reader questions in this first installment of the Think Like a Freak Book Club….
Also: do we subconsciously lie about our major influences?
…context where the prediction markets have been very successful. It doesn’t seem like Intrade.com covered the show (why?). But realitymarkets.com showed David Archuleta to have a commanding lead even after…
Those letters at the end of web addresses can mean big bucks — and, for some small countries, a substantial part of the national budget. Zachary Crockett follows the links….
Is evolution stacked against healthy eating? What policies could increase demand for nutritious food? And does Popeyes count as a cultural icon?…
…heightened because I knew that my weight would be automatically tweeted at twitter.com/ianweight: You see, last week I received a wonderful new piece of technology, the withings wifi scale, and…
How does the profitability of family firms stack up against the rest? Has nepotism become more taboo over time? And why are 90 percent of adoptees in Japan not children…
…policy to cover the possibility of a Sox victory. While Jordan’s declined recently to comment to Freakonomics.com on any details, the chain’s CEO earlier told TheRedSoxTimes.com that he had “bought…
…in 1,500 buyers have reviewed the book on Amazon.com. (You don’t have to have bought the book on Amazon.com to review it there.) That’s pretty thin. On the other hand,…
One creature’s trash is another’s cash. Zachary Crockett flushes out the numbers with a man who found profit in pee….
When it comes to end-of-life medical care, getting it right can be hard — even for doctors. Bapu Jena discusses surprising research on how we can live better — and…
…Number one blogged-about subject (not candidate) on the internet (technorati.com) 2. Highest website traffic of all the candidates (Alexa.com) 3. His odds of winning have quadrupled on gambling sites (gambling911.com)…
…most motivated to own a URL for some reason doesn’t. The winner of the contest proposed Nissan.com, which belongs not to the car company, but to a far lesser-known computer…
How do you express yourself when you’re not sure what you want to say? What’s the number one way to get people to listen to you? And why are letters…
…one company buys another company,” the Chairman of the company told me. So sue me. He has since produced the latest Superman movie. 10 Signs you need to leave your…
…credit card when shopping at Best Buy, credit-card companies would collect roughly $1 billion a year in fees from Best Buy. (See also a nice post on Consumerist.com about truecostofcredit.com.)…
…in time for New Year’s resolutions.? It’s The $500 Diet and for a limited time you can read it for free. Most diet books are written by physicians and scientists,…
NYTimes.com, fully free for a few more days A Forbes.com article by Jeff Bercovici discusses the New York Times‘s plan to shut down a rogue Twitter feed called FreeNYTimes, which…
Last week, we solicited your questions for John Tierney and Roy Baumeister, authors of the new book Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength. You responded with a variety of interesting…
