A Literature Wikipedia
…to visit a literary website I’m about to launch. As I may have told you, DebbiesIdea.com is intended to serve as “A Reader’s Guide to Unfamiliar Literature”-a resource to help…
…to visit a literary website I’m about to launch. As I may have told you, DebbiesIdea.com is intended to serve as “A Reader’s Guide to Unfamiliar Literature”-a resource to help…
…and Investing Guidebook.” Kirkus Reviews, for instance, writes the following about his book: Most people have heard of the New York Stock Exchange, but the inner workings of the stock…
Duncan Foley, a professor of economics at the New School for Social Research, has written an interesting-sounding book: Adam’s Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology. The Adam of the title…
…and get a guided tour of a hacker chat room where credit-card numbers, passwords, and PIN’s are bought and sold. Below is some of the research cited in the Times…
The economics of book publishing are usually not sensible, predictable, or even explicable. This New York Times article by Shira Boss is a good beginner’s guide to the subject. Not…
BusinessWeek recently reported on the creative product-placement deals that daytime TV shows employ. The highlight of the article is Martha Stewart — the self-described “most trusted guide to stylish living”…
June 25 is LEON Day, explained as follows by ButlerWebs’ Holiday Guide: “LEON is NOEL spelled backwards. It is now six months until Christmas.” Also known as 1/2Xmas….
…Israeli guide said that some parents let their kids smoke on Purim. There are efforts to curb this tradition, but for now it is still alive and well in Jerusalem….
…its aggregate guide to the political markets, with the goal described as follows: “If a single prediction market is wiser than the pundits and the polls, imagine how wise all…
…also becoming her spiritual guide, and inspiring her conversion. I tried to take advantage of some online video instruction recently. I really wanted to learn how to do a flip…
…at Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen’s Guide to the Debate Over Taxes, by Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija. Slemrod, an economist at the University of Michigan, is a profoundly experienced researcher…
…state’s traffic accident rate by replacing some of its continuous overhead lighting with passive reflectors. Also, airfield runways maximize visibility for pilots by using guide lights that delineate the edges…
…He is the founder of the omnipresent Frommer’s Travel Guides as well as Budget Travel magazine. His career was accidental: after graduating from Yale Law School in the midst of…
…have today? One answer is that safety wasn’t as much of a concern: according to my tour guide, more than 90 men died during construction. It takes a lot of…
…the goods and the bads of cancer, by finding resources such as The Green Guide that highlight what is known or suspected to increase cancer risks that we can control….
A New York guide to holiday tipping. Researchers discover the surefire way to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors. (Earlier) An economic case for predicting no recession. Monkeys exhibit the same…
Is the “Google generation” really so Internet savvy? 2007 tied for Earth’s second-warmest year. (Earlier) See it to believe it: the eco-friendly Hummer. (Earlier) A complete guide to Marginal Revolution’s…
…so on. I actually think that economists are right to do so in general, and I’ve argued in particular that disgust is useless as a guide for moral behavior. So,…
N.I.H. and the E.P.A. to collaborate on testing chemicals for toxic effects. (Earlier) The 10 most fuel-efficient luxury cars. (Earlier) A guide to optimizing caffeine consumption. “Plagiarius Award” developed for…
Can big businesses lead us to a cultural revolution? Does the human “inactivity bias” make economic sense? (Earlier) Michael Shermer discusses The Mind of the Market. (Earlier) A guide to…
…the past 30 years and still learn something new with each reading. It is single best guide to being effective I have every come across. The Godfather by Mario Puzo…
In case you didn’t get your fill from our previous post, the e-mail guide Send — by The Times‘s OpEd editor, David Shipley, and former Hyperion Books editor-in-chief, Will Schwalbe…
…to guessing my finishing time. Leave your guesses in the comments anytime before the race begins (2 p.m. Stockholm time = 8 a.m. EST). And now, the form guide: The…
…total of $19,000 for three independent assessments. (Each assessment comes with a conceptual plan that can guide Michael over the next ten years, as well as a practical description of…
…attitude toward the environment that one finds in places like Alaska, Wyoming, and Northern Canada. I had an excellent guide on this trip, Kjartan, an electrical engineer who moonlighted as…
…the system and it should by no means be considered a credible source on the topic. The ratings are an informational guide for parents — and that’s it. The rating…
…high school and middle school, where many “hard” subjects are about memorizing and repeating well-defined steps. Literary critique has no well-defined guide posts (unless you cheat and plagiarize), and so…
…not a guarantee of the future, but it is a telling guide. If you can accept the short-term risk and you have a diversified portfolio, you are going to do…
New research finds that credit-card holders pay down their debts more slowly when their statements suggest a minimum monthly installment. The Economist reports on the study, by University of Warwick…
…book on that day. My guide mentioned that the books are always sold to the (female) buyer at a 10 percent discount below the regular price; when asked whether the…