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…rise or fall, and then immediately tells you if you won or lost — with another performance chart showing you why. And maybe that instant gratification is what makes this…
No one wants mass shootings. Unfortunately, no one has a workable plan to stop them either.
It’s hard enough to save for a house, tuition, or retirement. So why are we willing to pay big fees for subpar investment returns? Enter the low-cost index fund. The…
There are enough management consultants these days to form a small nation. But what do they actually do? And does it work?
…rise or fall, and then immediately tells you if you won or lost — with another performance chart showing you why. And maybe that instant gratification is what makes this…
…passing along germs. One new solution for doctors who just can’t bear to part with formal neckwear: the antimicrobial necktie. (Hat tip: Ted DiSante) But here’s a much more interesting…
…and the new way is so simple I can immediately switch and see benefits. Usually it is a new technology that unlocks the magic. For instance, XM Radio, iTunes and…
(Photo: Stewart Butterfield) Encyclopaedia Britannica has declared that its latest print edition will be its last; from here on out, everything will be digital. Jim Romenesko rounds up coverage from…
…“Why did crime fall in the 1990’s?” Answers were typical: good economy, more police, etc. I offered a different view with the Roe v Wade approach. The professor immediately accused…
…long-term psychological disorders, and his job is to help them function as smoothly — and inexpensively — as possible in the community. One thing his clients like to do is…
…agribusiness. Yet others would like to see local farmers empowered to practice indigenous methods. Whichever schemes ultimately prevail (hopefully a combination of all), there’s one solution that must be included…
Education is the surest solution to a lot of problems. Except when it’s not.
…old interview with one of the greatest minds of last century, John A. Wheeler and in it he quotes: ‘The difference between the right word and the nearly right word…
The world is warmer than ever, and getting hotter. Bapu Jena looks at how heat affects our bodies and our behavior — and how we might adapt to rising temperatures….
…column for the New York Times, e-mailed the 177 members of the National Bureau of Economic Research who concentrate on economic fluctuations and growth. He asked them a seemingly simple…
…the last day of the tax year. As Stephanie Strom writes in The Times: New data from Convio, a software company, shows that charitable donors that use Convio’s online giving…
Imagine that both substances were undiscovered until today. How would we think about their relative risks?
Is it as simple as going to the richest neighborhood you can find? Of course not …
…Goldwater speeches and fed them to the White House, causing Goldwater to complain that whenever he put forth an initiative, the White House immediately trumped it. But perhaps the ugliest…
The world’s great museums are full of art and artifacts that were plundered during an era when plunder was the norm. Now there’s a push to return these works to…
Photo: david_shankbone I get it – people are angry. Very, very angry. I’m angry too. And Wall Street sure makes a great scapegoat, hence the Occupy Wall Street protest. Wall…
…last frame concerns an inverse: “If not p, then not q.” An interesting empirical study would look to see how often newspapers or academics misuse these adverbs (I’m sure I…
…beside me reading her book (The Doll People). She took at look at what I was reading. Her eyes immediately found a four-letter word. “Hey,” she said. “That’s a bad…
It’s a surprisingly hard question to answer. Bapu talks with a health economist about a natural experiment that led to some unexpected findings….
I still love the book “A Million Little Pieces,” but having carefully read the outstanding investigative reporting done by thesmokinggun.com, I’m pretty disgusted that someone would try to pass this…
…Driving?” stickers for teenagers. Check out tell-my-mom.com (howsmydriving.com has a special program for senior drivers as well). Bumper stickers might also keep your car from getting stolen. The Feds help…
That’s how PMSBuddy.com pitches itself. To wit: PMSBuddy.com is a free service created with a single goal in mind: to keep you aware of when your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister,…
…rural communities and in the South and Midwest. Jezebel.com includes the numbers on abortion providers by religion: 40.2 percent of Jewish doctors say yes, compared with 1.2 percent of Evangelical…
Everyone agrees that massive deforestation is an environmental disaster. But most of the standard solutions — scolding the Brazilians, invoking universal morality — ignore the one solution that might actually…
…account the user-defined level of compatibility. OkCupid measures compatibility by the “match percentage,” which is based on the degree to which users give the answer desired by another user (and…
