Larry Summers for Treasury Secretary
…your child will have, but this range must be centered on an IQ of 100. Any IQ within the range that you choose is equally likely to occur. What range…
Starting in the late 1960s, the Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Danny Kahneman began to redefine how the human mind actually works. Michael Lewis’s new book The Undoing Project explains…
…your child will have, but this range must be centered on an IQ of 100. Any IQ within the range that you choose is equally likely to occur. What range…
…to ask a doctor: “What would you do in my case if this was happening to you/your child/your parent?” –VBinNV A. This is an excellent question that patients frequently ask…
…languages, it might look like this. A young child says, “I am hungry.” The parent replies, “Wait! Before saying am, you first must learn to conjugate to be in all…
…murders, kidnappings, and the like. Just today, the Wall Street Journal published an article about how few child kidnappings are in fact the result of a stranger taking a child:…
…(one is featured in the book) who think it’s quite possible to teach children to control themselves — and that this is the greatest gift parents can give their children….
…Palin the time she needed to embrace the child’s special needs, wouldn’t you think that time would also have been valuable to her children for the same reason? And even…
…other words, what were they thinking, and why did they think they could get away with it? A. Any comments that I might make about what individuals were thinking when…
…since the 1930s has measured children from shortly after birth until age 18. Most of the children come from the area near Dayton, Ohio, which is not a mirror of…
…local German authorities must also approve first names, which have to match the child’s gender and “must not expose the child to ridicule or discrimination.” (Germany is hardly the first…
…teach you, if you’re willing, to think like a Freak. Think Like a Freak Table of Contents 1. What Does It Mean to Think Like a Freak? An endless supply…
…and Xiaobo Zhang think they’ve come up with an explanation. It turns out that China’s “one child” policy, which created a huge surplus of men in the country, has driven…
…even aspects of the context. At some point, I switched from thinking about my family to thinking about a nightmarish home invasion that happened last year a few doors down…
…the sick family a mini-Brady Bunch structure – a recently married husband and wife who each bring to the marriage a child from a previous relationship?? And what does this…
…himself took in a showing of the film, with his own child in tow; and 3. Whether the success of films like Happy Feet have raised awareness of global warming….
Patients in the U.S. healthcare system often feel they’re treated with a lack of empathy. Doctors and nurses have tragically high levels of burnout. Could fixing the first problem solve…
…boots,” the “my” of ownership. Even in the nursery a child can be taught to mean by “my Teddy-bear” not the old imagined recipient of affection to whom it stands…
Our latest column in The New York Times Magazine is a pretty unusual one. In the past, we’ve written about child car seats, dog poop, the price of sex, the…
…that: Mothers also do not appear to compensate for the complete absence of a father figure by increasing their involvement with their children. In fact, it is those children without…
He’s a world-renowned magician who’s been performing since he was seven-years-old. But Joshua Jay is also an author, toymaker, and consultant for film and television. Steve Levitt talks to him…
Also: are the most memorable stories less likely to be true?
…Stephen Randall (responsible for all those wonderful interviews and more) likes to say, “We’re like the rich guy in a convertible who’s smoking a cigar and has his arm around…
…I won’t say how, because people tend to get angry when I discuss such details; but I don’t think it would be hard. It is possible that hidden layers of…
…off slightly). Is that amount large or small, or even reasonably likely to be correct? Who knows until it is turned into a human-sized number as spending per pupil. Combining…
…a recently married husband and wife who each bring to the marriage a child from a previous relationship. I think the writers were setting up a parallel with the episode’s…
We explore votes for English, Indonesian and … Esperanto! The search for a common language goes back millennia, but so much still gets lost in translation. Will technology finally solve…
Humans have a built-in “negativity bias,” which means we give bad news much more power than good. Would the Covid-19 crisis be an opportune time to reverse this tendency?
How did a nation of immigrants come to hate immigration? We start at the beginning, sort through the evidence, and explain why your grandfather was lying about Ellis Island. (Part…
…the ability to suffer. For some jobs, you need to look good. If you want to buy things for rich people, you can’t look like a farmer or they’ll think…
…Steps, a political-satire singing troop, have even spoofed the proliferation of TV ads promoting drugs to treat increasingly bizarre diseases, like Restless Leg Syndrome. The economic incentives are all wrong…
