Another Way to Encourage Voting
How about … publishing the names and addresses of people who don’t vote? Nothing like a little shaming offensive to boost voter turnout, right? Well, in this case it’s complicated…
How about … publishing the names and addresses of people who don’t vote? Nothing like a little shaming offensive to boost voter turnout, right? Well, in this case it’s complicated…
…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…
As James Altucher reports on his daily blog watch on TheStreet.com, the sale of domain names remains a very big business. This year, Diamonds.com went for $7.5 million, Vodka.com for…
…this Web site, fulfilling bookplate requests, etc.): Dubner posted recently about intentionally misspelled domain names, such as Stockpickr.com, that aim to grab clumsy typists and/or poor spellers. The idea that…
We’ve blogged in the past about aptonyms — names that fit the people who own them, like a magazine fact-checker named Paige Worthy — and we’ve even held an aptonym…
…that he had two belly buttons until he got a baby sister. Anya had only one. Observant readers of this blog may note that Solomon and Anya are the names…
…only one and a half econometrics classes under his belt. His econometrics professors must know what they are doing. Andy, if you read this, please post the names of your…
…the top young economists, but also because I know how old the economists here are with much more precision than at other schools. So apologies to those whose names I…
…idea may become a regular feature on Stockpickr. I can’t wait to see what kind of stocks James digs up for our next post on crack cocaine or baby names….
…of witnesses cooperating with the government. The site posts their names and mug shots, along with court documents detailing what they have agreed to do in exchange for lenient sentences.”…
…search of the two men’s names. Indeed, aside from the occasional spike, McCartney lags behind his long-deceased mate (Lennon is in red): “You might think that if McCartney ever had…
…failing, and people start calling you names. I then proceeded to tell Schwem about the worst stand-up routine I’d ever seen. It had happened about a year ago, when I…
…identity on the Internet.” Still, the concept has one glaring weakness that even a non-computer science expert can figure out: reduce the number of names and passwords you use on…
…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…
…And here, as compiled by the Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, are an extraordinarily entertaining index of cocaine street names: For cocaine powder: Badrock, Bazooka, Beam, Berni,…
…Dubner and Levitt have blogged regularly about real estate here, including this virtual real estate roller coaster and the question of whether street names affect property values. In their paper…
…your clients, and if so, how? A. Yes. Always. I insist that they give me their full names and their place of work so that I can contact them there…
…who devotes time to pestering friends and relatives for information before departing on a trip frequently obtains the names of such contacts. On a recent trip to Stockholm, my wife…
…commenters to list their genders as well. In most cases, we could make an informed guess of gender based on names. Women turned out to be 36 percent counter-clockwise, versus…
…out of four, even if you spend an hour coming up with names. (The answers are here.) Then explain to me the criteria necessary for being declared a “notable” person….
…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…
…than the buyer’s piggish reclaimers. And do we really want sellers to have to spend money paying attention to the e-mail names and boilerplate messages of other consumers? Here’s a…
…Vioxx were prepared and written by Merck or medical writing companies that Merck had commissioned. The company then often paid academics to become authors, placing their names at the head…
…their names were Kennedy, O’Connor, Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas. And it was only the votes they cast while wearing their robes that mattered, not the ones they may have cast…
…her success in life. Apparently they didn’t read Freakonomics, or at least they didn’t believe it. So what qualities did these parents want their chosen names to have? For boys,…
In keeping with our aptonym tradition, a bunch of helpful readers have sent in good examples of people whose last names go well with their professions. To wit: From a…
Levitt and I missed a terrific business opportunity. If we had even an ounce of entrepreneurship between us, we would have parlayed the Freakonomics chapter on baby names into a…
…hair trimmer for $12.99, but in the same catalog offers the identical product, called the Trim-a-Pet, for $7.99. Dr. Leonard’s Dr. Leonard’s Other than the names on the packages and…
…whether it be the ones with the usual unpronounceable conglomeration of ingredients, or fresh produce with branded names like Emeril tomatoes, or Green Giant potatoes. As far as we’re concerned…
…Submissions are up around 50 percent over the previous year, with the great majority of the increase accounted for by “no revisions” submissions. Some of the biggest names in the…