How Biased is the Media? Tim Groseclose, Author of Left Turn, Answers Your Questions
…chapter I search for a place that votes the opposite of a newsroom – 93-7 for the Republican. It’s basically impossible to find such a county, but one that comes…
…chapter I search for a place that votes the opposite of a newsroom – 93-7 for the Republican. It’s basically impossible to find such a county, but one that comes…
…search for their handsets, including features that use GPS technology to send out virtual semaphores.” I have the “Find My Phone” app which will automatically email the location of the…
…through. There were five exits to the freeway in this city. The goal was to get gas for as cheap as possible.? The problem was that we knew virtually nothing…
…reorientation of focus in the research economists undertake, as well as for the establishment of an ethical code that would ask economists to understand and communicate the limitations and potential…
…more recent research by me. Dozens responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a couple per week. Timothy Rosa asked: I’ve seen the quote “If…
Quotes Uncovered Here are more quote authors and origins Shapiro’s tracked down recently. Communism and Godliness Survivors and Votes Who Found Proof in the Pudding? A while back, I invited…
…might give you imaginary Restless Leg Syndrome. Happy New Year to all and feel free to share your favorite medical myths in the comment section below. (Hat tip: Chris Blattman)…
…to me than any sane person. Just like a New York City apartment that’s new to the market is far more valuable to the people living next door so they…
Couples get divorced for all kinds of reasons. Is having kids one of them? Bapu talks about research that investigates what happens to parents who unexpectedly have twins. Plus, an…
…vacation. Also, the time-share bank provides information on a pre-selected set of vacation units, thus saving us search costs. We’re quite happy to pay for a self-control mechanism and pay…
…him. I’m cheered by the news regarding presidents I did a quick search and couldn’t find any systematic evidence that lefties were more likely to be found in leadership positions…
…in how we experience marriage underpins rising toward support for same-sex marriage. At least that’s the idea that Betsey Stevenson and I explore in our latest column: For our grandparents’…
…the latest being New Jersey, now allow school districts to sell ads on the sides of public school buses. Florida is currently considering it. So is Guam apparently. There are…
…fraud rate of PPC advertisements appearing on search engine content networks, including Google AdSense and the Yahoo Publisher Network, was 28.3% in fourth-quarter 2007 — up from the 19.2% average…
Wolfram Alpha has just launched a free?Widget Builder that lets you easily create widgets to calculate all kinds of things – seamlessly integrating data from the Alpha server.? (I’ve blogged…
…– becomes an often-boring dice race. Once you use the cube, especially with dollars attached to points, the game changes completely because the most exciting and most difficult decisions have…
Vanity plates might be 2KUL4U, but in the Blue Hen State, low-digit plates command high-digit prices. Zachary Crockett sums up a big market in a small state….
…being shifted to the regional carriers, like the American Eagles, Comairs, Mesas, and Colgan Airs, to name a few. These consist of the lowest bidders and the newest pilots flying…
…search of the vast ProQuest database of historical newspapers and magazines does not reveal any pre-Annie usages, so I would conjecture that it was probably not in use before the…
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…
…Cameron has announced. … Mr Cameron warned in a speech that access to online pornography was “corroding childhood.” The new measures will apply to both existing and new customers. Mr…
​If you’re a C.E.O., there are a lot of ways to leave your job, from abrupt firing to carefully planned succession (which may still go spectacularly wrong). In this final…
…to check if the data had come in. I knew it would take a while for our local team in China to enter and validate the data, but I couldn’t…
Last week, we solicited your questions for Martin Lindstrom, a marketing consultant and author of the new book Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to…
…Scientist tells the tale, The Phoenix Mars lander, which NASA uses to search for organic compounds on the red planet, may have been mistakenly burning up those very compounds. [%comments]…
…research. Here is the latest round. aaron asked: “What goes around comes around.” This is a proverb. The earliest citation for it given by The Yale Book of Quotations is…
…carry West Nile virus. From a Mercury News article: Worried health officials will embark today on an aerial search for backyard, watery havens for mosquitoes that potentially carry the deadly…
The past 40 years have seen huge amounts of research showing that extending the potential duration of unemployment benefits creates an incentive for the unemployed to search less and remain…
Also: how does a cook become a chef? With Gabrielle Hamilton.
Promising drugs keep failing in trials. Allegations of fraud have cast a shadow over the field. An expert explains why Alzheimer’s treatments have been so hard to find — and…
