Observational Detectives
…Lisa blew my mind when she pointed out how directly the House character was based on Sherlock Holmes: both have names that sound like a domicile (Holmes/House); both are addicted…
Also: do we overestimate or underestimate our significance in other people’s lives?…
Probably not — the incentives are too strong. Scholarly publishing is a $28 billion global industry, with misconduct at every level. But a few reformers are gaining ground. (Part two…
As Kevin Kelly tells it, the hippie revolution and the computer revolution are nearly one and the same.
What is the purpose of negative emotions? Why do we engage with things we know will upset us? And how does Angie deal with rejection?
Games are as old as civilization itself, and some people think they have huge social value regardless of whether you win or lose. Tom Whipple is not one of those…
To get a lot of followers on Twitter, do you need to follow a lot of other Tweeps? And if not, why not?
In the American Dream sweepstakes, Andrew Yang was a pretty big winner. But for every winner, he came to realize, there are thousands upon thousands of losers — a “war…
Since his last visit to People I (Mostly) Admire, the formerly top-ranked golfer has become the sport’s most controversial figure. Why has he partnered with the Saudi government — and…
Societies where people trust one another are healthier and wealthier. In the U.S. (and the U.K. and elsewhere), social trust has been falling for decades — in part because our…
Hospitals compete for prime spots on the U.S. News rankings — but could those lists be doing more harm than good?…
In ancient Rome, it was bread and circuses. Today, it’s a World Cup, an Olympics, and a new Saudi-backed golf league that’s challenging the PGA Tour. Can a sporting event…
Games are as old as civilization itself, and some people think they have huge social value regardless of whether you win or lose. Tom Whipple is not one of those…
…Lisa blew my mind when she pointed out how directly the House character was based on Sherlock Holmes: both have names that sound like a domicile (Holmes/House); both are addicted…
…(42) or the authors’ names (46)? I believe this is what is meant by “asked and answered.” Here’s a PDF of an earlier draft, albeit with a slightly longer abstract….
…Novelists” category to the “American Women Novelists” subcategory. So far, female authors whose last names begin with A or B have been most affected, although many others have, too. The…
…that only those whose names had been put on a list by someone winning the highest civilian award could pass through the gates onto the White House grounds. There was…
…to use an image. At first blush, that might seem odd. We usually think of trademarks as symbols or words or names that identify products as coming from a particular…
…confident somebody is going to write a book with the title [—–]-nomics. I have over 150 domain names within my own industry which is manufacturing so it does not make…
…reads like a synagogue mailing list.” Binder and Blum, Fine and Klein, Gillman and Meskin, Schuster and Siegel. Many took Anglicized bylines, the same sort of country-club names they gave…
…Rooney had complained that there are too many baseball players with names like Matsuzaka and Okajima. (I am guessing we wouldn’t have read about it at all.) Or, switching arenas…
…the effect of connecting them, over the long-term, to art that they otherwise sold. For example, some European countries give artists the right to have their names associated with their…
…$25 to the person who comes up with a great name for his baby due in a few weeks. We’ve got lots of great Freakonomics-approved baby names to give away….
…surveys, the authors determine that opposition voters experienced a 5 percent drop in earnings and a 1.5 percent drop in employment rates after their names were released. The authors also…
…employers who place want ads were less likely to respond to resumes from people with African-American sounding names. But in some ways the OkCupid result is even more depressing than…
…to coincide with the cut-off score for passing the exam. Poland employs a fairly elaborate system to avoid bias and grade inflation: removing students’ names from the exams, distributing them…
…The fight that he describes watching on Leonard’s last night is clearly Bowe vs Holyfield 3. He doesn’t use their names but the fight is for the Heavyweight title and…
…button doesn’t mean that it is considerate for you to do so. (You also have a first amendment right to call me names, but that doesn’t make your exercise of…
…fund. You simply pick the portfolio that dovetails with when you think you might retire. (These funds will have a target retirement year as part of their names.) The portfolio…
…certainly hold with respect to tattooing the names of any of my ex-girlfriends on my chest. So what makes tattoos so popular? One possibility is that people just enjoy them…
…1976 book about ‘You Bet Your Life.’ Bernie had an astonishing memory, as well as a chart with all the contestants’ names, how much they won and what the secret…