How Pure Is Your Altruism?
…each case won’t be very large. (One surprising upside may, however, emerge for China: activists from the U.S. and elsewhere who’ve been urging an Olympic boycott may find it harder…
…each case won’t be very large. (One surprising upside may, however, emerge for China: activists from the U.S. and elsewhere who’ve been urging an Olympic boycott may find it harder…
…excerpt: James is especially good at making silk purses from sows’ ears. He finds the upside in identity theft, obesity, bot armies, and traffic fatalities. Some may grumble that he…
…diggers have gotten back to work. What I can’t understand is why they so openly describe and show this work to reporters working for American newspapers. What is the upside…
…a financial upside to the new m.p.g. initiative as well. It will save motorists several hundred dollars per year at the pump, meaning the improvements should pay for themselves in…
…everyone in Congress thinks the current system is broken. Third, no one worth paying attention to in Congress doesn’t view the enormous time spent fund raising — 30 percent to…
…A lot of data gets mangled, cherry-picked, or turned upside-down on its way into an article. That said, I think most journalists and all data people would agree that the…
…most of his day feeding numbers into a computer while Dubner spends most of his day feeding words. That said, the nature of our collaboration on a given day is…
…and what it takes to get the mindset to turn conventional concepts upside down.” The Telegraph: “Levitt and Dubner’s zeal for statistical anomalies is as undimmed as their eye for…
…tie them upside down from the crossbeams. As darkness unfolded, we’d use flashlights to pick the last of the cucumbers, our noses running, fingers burning with the chill, the clear…
…ensure that we use the entire product. They contain user-friendly features such as capacious openings (milk), transparent appearance (bagged salad), re-sealers (nuts), the ability to be turned upside down (ketchup),…
…parents divorcing?? Well, yes they might divorce, but the upside is that it is a symptom of their being alive and healthy.? Your parents are also more likely to be…
…true menace? There is one possible upside to alcohol’s relative resistance to price increases. Since prices would rise more than drinking would drop, taxing alcohol more aggressively should translate into…
…celebrity in town will walk through there. Does this collective obsession with the minutia of celebrity lives have an upside?- Abe Stalin A. Finding celebrities and taking their picture can…
…sticks are often counterproductive.? In fact, one of the coolest experiments described in Dan Ariely‘s?The Upside of Irrationality shows that incentives sometimes backfire. Ariely (together with his collaborators Nina Mazar,…
…top university, become a fellow in the Econometric Society (hooray!), and even win the Nobel Prize. Now there’s some evidence of an upside for those with late-letter last names. In…
Though it has an upside for the biosphere that shouldn’t be ignored, $100/barrel oil definitely isn’t much fun for our pocketbooks or the world economy. And could worse times be…
Here it is: upside of inertia These things don’t last long, do they? Meanwhile, Rick Perry has a better chance of winning the GOP’s nomination (29%) than Rupert Murdoch has…
…you hit the snooze bar. The environmental upside of cloud computing. The skewed profit incentives of law firms. A scientific explanation of beer goggles: a decreased ability to detect bilateral…
…of life paid for by taxpayers. Thus, from the uncertainty of longevity, the government faces only downside risk. There is no upside. Resolving uncertainty about longevity would not just be…
…artist that ever lived. You only get to be an artist like that by turning everything in your life upside down, by making horrible, ugly mistakes, by doing things so…
…upside. But will his off-the-field trouble follow him back into the game? And then you’ve got to wonder how his physical performance will be affected by his time off for…
…makes a substantial argument for the upside of higher alcohol taxes: On January 1, 1991, the federal excise tax on beer doubled, and the tax rates on wine and liquor…
…set. My wife understands my purchase but isn’t wholly enthusiastic about it. My kids are essentially baffled by my purchase. My son, however, did quickly find an upside. When I…
…risk is mine. When the invisible hand slaps the world upside the head, turning 401(k)’s into 201(k)’s, it’s my problem. Another 25 years of service on this latest and greatest…
…unless one chooses to ignore the results rather than draw learning from them. The upside to a rigorous evaluation is that even the failures in terms of lack of impact…
…and was upside-down on my loan. Plus I feel strangely vulnerable without a car.) Anyway, my car is idle a lot while the battery charge depletes slowly. And apparently, if…
…it is important to note that now, when there is an upside blowout with a team’s ace, those usual innings are pitched by him in search of the almighty W….
Why do so many promising solutions — in education, medicine, criminal justice, etc. — fail to scale up into great policy? And can a new breed of “implementation scientists” crack…
It was only in his late twenties that America’s favorite brainiac began to seriously embrace his love of trivia. Now, he holds the “Greatest of All Time” title on Jeopardy!…
