…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…
…of Anders Ericsson dictates that always being the youngest is bad news for a child’s future in a sport. My first tournament was in Fairmont, Minn., a small town halfway…
…that Americans today are more likely than ever to get divorced, Stevenson and Wolfers show that this pattern is purely an artifact of a change in data collection methods. In…
…but based on other criteria like convenience. In thinking about the broader implications of this research, it is important to bear in mind that the school choice program that Julie…
…Education. Included in this study are tests of mental ability around a child’s first birthday. While you might think it would be impossible to capture anything meaningful at such a…
…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…
…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…
…will be. While everyone likes to say that consumers think music should be free, I don’t think that’s true. The Radiohead thing had less to do with business models and…
…are already working with the Prosper data (think “What Makes You Click,” the online-dating paper); I am looking forward to learning more about Prosper first-hand in a couple of months….
…with a White rather than a Black child. Finally, children anticipated that parents would also display racial biases. Most importantly, we found that children’s attitudes were strongly correlated with the…
…for anyone who uses a computer. He also plainly thinks like an economist: search below for “crime pays” to see his sober assessment of why it’s better to earn a…
…of Newcastle found that one in 10 Australian moms suffers from post-natal depression (and it’s likely that she had pre-pregnancy depression as well). At the same time, new data from…
…go something like this: “Clean air is good, especially for kids and doggies like yours who enjoy breathing it. But some people, like Congressman Smarmet, think clean air can be…
…unable to make rational choices, unlike Uncle Al. I think that the government (and parents) have a critical role to minimize the possibility of children growing up to regret the…
Limiting child access to TV and Internet can lower their weight. (Earlier) Is online therapy the future of mental health treatment? Is Google recession-proof? (Earlier) 140-year-old math problem solved. (Earlier)…
…Fails to the World That Works.” His answers, below, are comprehensive, measured, and often fascinating. I think this is easily one of the best Q&A’s we’ve had on this blog….
…University of Chicago colleague (who I don’t think I have ever met), Neil Shubin, entitled Your Inner Fish. Shubin, a paleontologist, makes a convincing case for us being very fish-like…
…is yet another reminder that, as much as we might like to think that wages are perfectly correlated with talent and effort, more trivial factors always come into play. There…
…every recipient actually forwarded the letter to seven other people would quickly absorb every child in the world (7 raised to the power of 10 is roughly the U.S. population.)…
…tendency to divorce if their first-born was a girl. Reasoning that the gender of the child is random, they explore the consequences of this higher divorce risk on income. A…
…He wanted to combine health-related philanthropy with an approach to solving hunger in America. I think that Debra (comment #380) is thinking like I am. I’d like to create a…
…of those under threat are American languages — the likes of Kashaya, spoken in a small part of northern California, and Menominee in Wisconsin. I think we can say that…
…don’t put any information about yourself online, somebody else might spread information about you. A parent who has no online presence may have a child who is writing extensively about…
…talent, practice, and athletic excellence, here’s what he had to say: My experience tells me that people like to do what they’re really good at. And so, in my life…
…think I sent him this last e-mail in order to directly insult him. To date, that is my worst e-mail mistake that I am aware of. Perhaps I have made…
…my blegging for examples of famous computer proverbs. In general, proverb dictionaries are filled with traditional sayings like “A stitch in time saves nine,” ignoring modern proverbs. Yet modern proverbs…
…modern proverbs, like “Sh*t happens,” “It takes a village to raise a child,” “Different strokes for different folks,” “The opera ain’t over until the fat lady sings,” “There ain’t no…
…his wife were expecting their first child. Here’s a follow up note from Hurman about some interesting behavior modification that took hold once the auction was over. While Hurman represents…
…another. Q: What record(s) would you like to see attempted?What record(s) do you think will never be broken?What was the best attempt to fraudulently get a record in the book?…
From the Journal of the American Medical Association, the results of a randomized controlled trial using St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) to treat children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: To our knowledge,…