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(Photo: Keith Allison) We’ve blogged before about the (relatively small) effect of birth month on athletic excellence. But how does birth location affect a potential athlete? In The New York…
(Photo: Keith Allison) We’ve blogged before about the (relatively small) effect of birth month on athletic excellence. But how does birth location affect a potential athlete? In The New York…
…TED community then helps to bring into reality. Brilliant’s plan, described in this TED video, is to devise a system that will crawl the internet looking for early clues that…
…teaching and his research/publication luster; and students are worse off too. Is this really a Pareto deterioration—a new economic phrase denoting a change in which at least one person is…
…this Google Blog Search: SOPRANOS FINALE WTF. Scroll down to the page that contains entries from the minutes after the show aired. If the Smithsonian or anyone else ever wants…
Photo: HBO We feature all kinds of people on this blog – drug dealers, prostitutes, even academic economists – but readers are always complaining that we don’t have any movie…
…Literacy (NAAL), which measures the English literacy of adults across the United States. Prose literacy, defined in the study as the ability to “search, comprehend, and use information from continuous…
…other state? Texas is America’s fastest-growing large state, with three of the top five fastest-growing cities in the country: Austin, Dallas and Houston. In 2012 alone, total migration to Texas…
…It takes you to the BLS page where they plot the latest data, but without the seasonal wiggles. Yes, Google does offer a disclaimer with its data. But a better…
…but beyond anecdotal research: I’ve called hundreds of women for executive roles in carrying out searches for our clients. They simply say “No thanks.” Perhaps they are a single parent…
…on which economist will be the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve. (At Tradesports, go to the trading screen and search under “Current Events – Federal Reserve.” Consistent with the…
…searchable online database of “odds statements,” the probabilities of everyday life. You can search it by keyword or by the odds themselves — for instance, how many things stand a…
Recorded live in San Francisco. Guests include the keeper of a 10,000-year clock, the co-founder of Lyft, a pioneer in male birth control, a specialist in water security, and a…
…a horse. This got me to thinking: how dangerous is horseback riding, especially as compared to, say, riding a motorcycle? A quick Google search turns up this 1990 CDC report,…
…the mainstream press. It is true that the story didn’t make it into the Times, and the results of a Google News search are pretty light. You could argue that…
…economic impacts, and the freak’s point of view. I live in New York. When hurricane Sandy came along the top-of-the-list item my friends with children hoarded was milk. They gave…
…difficult places and tackle the toughest challenges. I would recommend that you focus where the need is greatest — Zimbabwe — and where your work will have the greatest impact….
Tim Davis, an artist who teaches at Bard College in upstate New York, wanted to sculpt a life-size self-portrait out of album covers of Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait. But he’s…
If you can make it through three years of law school, you too might end up on a billboard. Zachary Crockett makes the case.
…Levitt). But no security trouble this time. I had the good fortune to be reading an early copy of The Search, by John Battelle, which primarily tells the history of…
…returns (10) risk (35) role (10) school (20) search (8) shocks (12) social (11) structure (14) student (15) supply (10) survey (7) tax (10) teaching (13) theory (11) trade (13) wage (14) welfare (8) women (8) created at TagCrowd.com It’s good to see the biggest word here is…
…seven-year-old girl and two women were pulled from the rubble of a collapsed supermarket by an American search and rescue team after they sent a text message calling for help.”[%comments]…
…and analogies we read in wine reviews fuse with our experience of drinking the wine in such a complete way that the liquid’s intrinsic and extrinsic properties become inseparable.” They’re…
…How to Succeed at Failing How to Think About A.I. Everything You Never Knew About Whaling Stealing Art Is Easy. Giving It Back Is Hard. No Stupid Questions: The Seven…
…should the PSL inflation count against them? Note to young economists: a Google search of “PSL inflation” yields little about football; is PSL inflation an economic indicator worth looking at?…
…for any particular flight, but that doesn’t help you six months later when flying again). Anyhow, a nice example of a market failure (search costs too high, information isn’t free)…
…pulled out of the line and searched. First the full-body search. Then the luggage. It didn’t occur to me that my latest research was going to get me into trouble….
…new to me, and it seems quite compelling. You propose that the new standard model is evaluated according to an earlier reference point, relative to which it is a luxury….
…David Romer and I are the editors. We commissioned the papers, so of course we love ‘em.) Rather than write about the papers, I figured it might make more sense…
…most of the sunshine and reading the latest popular economics bestseller. Flickr user Esthr reports that Freakonomics was second from the top in this New Delhi bookseller’s stack (quite likely…
…the deadline was from Dave Benner, commenter No. 93, who guessed 666,666. Apparently the devil really is in the details. Congratulations to Dave; he’s got some schwag coming his way….
