Aaron Swartz Versus the Bankers
…to free knowledge and expand the public domain. In contrast, the bankers took from the public domain. Not one banker has gone to jail, except Bernie Madoff — whose crime,…
Reginald Dwayne Betts spent more than eight years in prison. Today he’s a Yale Law graduate, a MacArthur Fellow, and a poet. His nonprofit works to build libraries in prisons…
What is the cost of admitting you’re wrong? How can intellectual humility make you more open minded? And will Stephen finally persuade Angela that rum-raisin is the best flavor of…
…to free knowledge and expand the public domain. In contrast, the bankers took from the public domain. Not one banker has gone to jail, except Bernie Madoff — whose crime,…
Educational messaging looks good on paper but kids don’t respond to it — and adults aren’t much better.
In a special episode of No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth discuss classroom design, open offices, and cognitive drift….
…data on it, I’m certain this survey is far cheaper to administer than others, such as the National Crime Victimization Survey, which, because of restrictions on access to the data,…
…but with deep, lingering class divisions, higher levels of crime and social unrest, and millions who will never have access to the education and economic freedom that is their birthright….
Music video depicts drug dealer counting cash in euros. (Hat Tip: Foreign Policy) Study finds gender discrimination in coffee shops. Devra Davis to speak at NYU. (Earlier) An alternative theory…
…British Crime Survey, the number of adults in England and Wales who used illicit substances in 2009-10 — 8.6% — was the lowest recorded since the study began in 1996….
…would have — oh, wait. Yes. The Madoff crime will continue to provide work for many lawyers for many years to come. After the S.E.C.’s report, it is hard to…
…look at other outcomes, like the effects on children’s test scores. [Editor’s note: a later section in SuperFreakonomics examines the relationship between crime and the introduction of TV in the…
Is there such a thing as a victimless crime? In an unfair system, is dishonesty okay? And are adolescent vandals out of ideas?…
Dallas’s police department changed the way it lines up its suspects for identification. Instead of the common “six pack” method where the victim looks at six photos at once, detectives…
…on grain prices and crime in 19th century Germany which likely operates through beer and written about this relationship in one of our New York Times columns. The paper that…
…data (see here, here, and here). And data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization survey suggests that the majority of victimization for both women and men…
The U.N.’s World Happiness Report — created to curtail our unhealthy obsession with G.D.P. — is dominated every year by the Nordic countries. We head to Denmark to learn the…
I’ve been doing a series on drunk driving and alcohol-related harm (which can also include impaired work performance, domestic trouble, violence, crime, risky sex, fetal disorders, brain damage and many…
What your disgust level says about your politics, how Napoleon influenced opera, why New York City’s subways may finally run on time, and more. Five compelling guests tell Stephen Dubner,…
…many women) have higher crime rates. So how did Christianity tie itself to monogamy? Monogamy was bred in Greco-Roman societies. Christianity became popular in Rome. Rome fell, and Christianity adopted…
…while creating terrible violent crime. But if you question policy, you are accused of being pro-drug. That is preposterous. As a physician, father, and grandfather, I abhor drugs. I just…
After struggling to schedule a flu shot for his own toddler, host Bapu Jena went down a research rabbit hole. He discovered that the time of year kids are born…
…(if any) the book has had, whether in the realm of crime-fighting or baby-naming or book-writing. We need your help in gathering good examples to talk about. Nothing is too…
A recent story on the AP wire: OKLAHOMA CITY — A man got a prison term longer than prosecutors and defense attorneys had agreed to because of Larry Bird. The…
They’ve long been associated with crime and blight. Now, the investors are moving in. Zachary Crockett follows the trail.
…promissory fraud, you can be tagged in many states with punitive damages, and you can be prosecuted for the crime of false promise. Here he was, making a mock argument…
We all like to throw around terms that describe human behavior — “bystander apathy” and “steep learning curve” and “hard-wired.” Most of the time, they don’t actually mean what we…
Does having a strip club in your neighborhood increase crime rates? Did a poorly designed skyscraper melt a car with its reflection? A paper that crowdsources black-market drug prices. How…
Americans throw away 320 million books every year. How do some of them find a second life? Zachary Crockett is just browsing….
…of slave owners who moved to Kansas). It repays reading Sumner’s original “Crime Against Kansas” speech, which included an incendiary Don Quixote metaphor castigating South Carolina Senator (and Brooks’s kinsman)…
