Child Trafficking and the Internet
…so profitable, as at-risk children can be traded repeatedly (unlike an ounce of crack cocaine). With some modifications, an established drug network can be used as a child-sex network. Disgusting,…
Incarcerated people grow crops, fight wildfires, and manufacture everything from prescription glasses to highway signs — often for pennies an hour. Zachary Crockett takes the next exit, in this special…
…so profitable, as at-risk children can be traded repeatedly (unlike an ounce of crack cocaine). With some modifications, an established drug network can be used as a child-sex network. Disgusting,…
…health in such a way. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm drew their conclusions by examining 6,000 pairs of same-sex twins born between 1926 and 1958. They looked at…
…first study of the effects of color on actual human sexual attraction (as opposed to reported attraction), Daniela Niesta Kayser, Andrew J. Elliot, and Roger Feltman found that “when a…
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast is called “Would You Let a Coin Toss Decide Your Future?”…
…that employment lawyers are advising employers to “[not] even deal with them,” since a video can “reveal information about a person’s race, sex, disability, age — all details that could…
Sure, we all want to make good personal decisions, but it doesn’t always work out. That’s where “temptation bundling” comes in.
…and why we can’t live without our smart phones 4. Buy It, Get Laid: The new face of sex (and the sexes) in advertising 5. Under Pressure: The power of…
Sudhir Venkatesh, a sociologist who has studied crack gangs, sex workers, and gun runners, suddenly found himself working at Facebook, and later at Twitter. Now he’s back from Silicon Valley…
…mom and blogger whose last name is Hermitt. (Okay, it’s not great, but it’s pretty good.) And this Newsday article about teacher-student sex affairs quotes a “former Hofstra University professor…
…capacity of the marijuana high to add to the strength, worth, beauty, or other desirable qualities of experiences ranging from food and sex to creativity and appreciation of the natural…
…did the celebrity panelists on the first episode of Tell Me Something I Don’t Know: Debora Spar, president of Barnard College of Columbia University and author of “Wonder Women: Sex,…
Education is the surest solution to a lot of problems. Except when it’s not.
…for personal use – though he said he threw the drugs away without using them. The Rev. Ted Haggard denied the prostitute’s allegation that the two men met for sex…
…(Earlier) New InTrade markets predict the effects candidates may have on economic matters. Is this pollster luckier than everyone, or just better? Study shows monkeys may “pay” for sex. (Earlier)…
How does social media exploit our evolutionary instincts? How dangerous is it to post about your children online? And does Angela regret talking about her daughters on the podcast?…
A famous economics essay features a pencil (yes, a pencil) arguing that “not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me.” Is the pencil…
A brief meditation on loss, relativity, and the vagaries of show business….
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…when the police sought to rid the area of the sex economy — e.g., strip clubs, street-based prostitution, and video parlors. He also felt that the courts are largely impotent,…
…denying a sordid sex scandal to bashing President George H. W. Bush on the economy. But more than that, he was actually pointing at Bush’s recession as the reason poor…
…million years without sex, instead survive by producing genetic clones of themselves. A fake Apple store in western China. What Carmageddon taught us about behavioral economics. JSTOR hacker indicted on…
So you want to help people? That’s great — but beware the law of unintended consequences. Three stories from the modern workplace….
Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted. We talk to whistleblowers, reformers, and a…
Our appetite for breast meat renders our holiday birds unable to reproduce.
…issue has been mentioned and analyzed in various economic studies, including old ones about the effects of mandating car seat-belt use on automobile accidents, and about the impact of sex…
…screen time. [See, “How Snooki Can Help Stop Violent and Sex-Crazed Children”] #10 Thou Shalt Forever Progress Toward the Frontier. My kid had to read about Lewis And Clark this…
What Do NASCAR Drivers, Glenn Beck, and the Hitmen of the N.F.L. Have in Common? Interviews and musings about danger and safety in the modern world.
This week, Bapu Jena presents some hot-off-the-presses research exploring the relationship between how many patients a doctor sees, and how well those patients do. Plus, the surprising impact of annual…
…— credit and insurance products have changed dramatically in the past 20 years — making it hard for educators to keep up. It’s not like sex education. As far as…
