Right Versus Left Brain: What Does the Spinning Dancer Teach Us?
…30 percent for men (and 23 percent for people whose gender we couldn’t tell from their comment). From a cursory search of the Internet, it seems like this result also…
Three leading researchers from the Mount Sinai Health System discuss how ketamine, cannabis and ecstasy are being used (or studied) to treat everything from severe depression to addiction to PTSD….
So many vehicles on the road today are white, black, or gray — but automotive designers find that consumer preferences may be changing lanes. Zachary Crockett surveys the lot….
…30 percent for men (and 23 percent for people whose gender we couldn’t tell from their comment). From a cursory search of the Internet, it seems like this result also…
…same mantra: We are a search company, not a content company. Okay. Regardless, it’s undeniable that Google has greatly affected how journalism is consumed in this country and, consequently but…
About four percent of the value of your home. That’s what the economists Leigh Linden and Jonah Rockoff (both of Columbia University) concluded in a National Bureau of Economic Research…
The biggest sports league in history had a problem: While most of its players were Black, almost none of its head coaches were. So the N.F.L. launched a hiring policy…
Inspired by a recent trip to London, this recent Times article about England’s reluctant search for a national motto (suggestions range from “No Motto Please, We’re British” to “One Mighty…
…took the news well, claiming that she really only knew half of the Montana songs anyway. Deep inside she yearned to go to the concert, but was not willing to…
A news report from thespoof.com: CHICAGO. The University of Chicago, known for its free-market approach to economics, today announced that it will select its next tenured faculty member in the…
When the uncelebrated Leicester City Football Club won the English Premier League, it wasn’t just the biggest underdog story in recent history. It was a sign of changing economics —…
…Sites like Salon.com are willing to dig deeper than many of the mainstream news sites, but the politics are biased and therefore fail the test of what I seek. To…
For those of you who love prediction markets (a variety of which we’ve written about in the past), there’s a new site that looks to be as vast, inclusive, and…
…10 metric days each, each metric day composed of 10 metric hours, each metric hour composed of 100 metric minutes, and each metric minute composed of 100 metric seconds (which…
…“[T]he professional bondsman system … is odious at best.” But market competition among bond dealers may actually reduce discrimination against poor and middle-class defendants. Judges can cometimes discriminate when setting…
…the market reach equilibrium, Britain has been forced to search elsewhere for donated sperm. The shortage is getting worse, with some women who want babies not having them, and others…
…responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a few per week. John Christensen asked: Attributed to Mencken: “To every complicated problem there is a simple…
…throwing unshredded documents into dumpsters “put hundreds of Texans at risk” by giving fraudsters access to confidential information. EZ Pawn is being charged with violating the new law, Abbott said,…
…some organization doing that?” That is a much harder question to answer. Alas Givewell does the hard work of combining the evidence from research and combining this with a scrubbing…
…when Flu Trends showed a bump in flu-related search terms right before the swine flu outbreak. One biosurveillance company claims we should have listened to Twitter and bloggers instead. [%comments]…
…convenient means of oral or written communication between strangers of different cultures on planet Earth, but globalization is giving a new (virtual) planetary presence to hundreds of languages and cultures…
…only a distraction from the economic news of the moment. Perhaps a more insidious harbinger of things to come is the Google search data for suicide methods. Note the spike…
What happened when the Rooney Rule made its way from pro football to corporate America? Some progress, some backsliding, and a lot of controversy. (Second in a two-part series.)…
…of these policies are comparable: $30,000 to $40,000. I would recommend doing both, targeting roughly a million new jobs with each program, at a budgetary cost of perhaps $70 billion….
…programmers like Viacom and HBO. Suddenly, the cable companies will have an Internet-enabled competitor on their hands. Aereo will make it very attractive to dial back cable service, and with…
…sexual predators an opportunity they might not otherwise have. As is often the case with a new, scary technology, an even newer version of that technology turns out to be…
…U.S. Senator: Will it actually work? What are its best and worst features? Where does $2 trillion come from, and what are the long-term effects of all that government spending?…
…where she studied comparative literature and computer science. At any given time, there’s a good chance she’s harvesting greens from her garden, binging a new podcast series, sweating on strangers…
One prescription drug is keeping some addicts from dying. So why isn’t it more widespread? A story of regulation, stigma, and the potentially fatal faith in abstinence. (Part two of…
The gig economy offers the ultimate flexibility to set your own hours. That’s why economists thought it would help eliminate the gender pay gap. A new study, using data from…
Lately, the lot of the New York cabbie has improved a bit. But there are still some major systemic obstacles that keep drivers and their passengers from getting the conditions…
