March 10, 2009
I'm fascinated with books that deal with the social psychological conscious like Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers/Blink/Tipping Point or Stephen Dubner/Steven Levitt's Freakonomics. I'd love to read more books in the same vein. Any choice authors or books I should check out?...
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March 03, 2009
Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discriminatio...
Akkam's Razor
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December 08, 2008
Remember how Oprah once threatened to ruin the life of novelist Jonathan Franzen by selecting his book for her club and thereby making him lots and lots of money? Walmart might do the same to Apple's iPhone! Except it won't, really. Because Apple CEO Steve Jobs, unlike Franzen, occasionally acts lik...
Gawker: Valleywag
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July 14, 2008
[image credit:laffy4k] Today BusinessWeek and GigaOM formed a syndication partnership. BW will be featuring content from Om Malik’s blog network every Monday. After hearing about this, I realized that traditional media companies need blogs like us to keep them looking cool & hip. This ...
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July 01, 2008
This past week my son and I were discussing the tragedy that is life in this world, and he let me know that he had recently been informed that America is in dire straits and that he needs to keep up with Fox News to understand just how bad things are. Whenever someone says we need to keep up with Fo...
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June 24, 2008
There are few things in life as exciting as solving a measurement problem with the innovative use of some new source of data. Followers of this blog and The Measurement Standard newsletter probably share our enthusiasm about Freakonomics (see our review here, and another example on beauty premiums h...
The Measurement Standard: Blog Edition
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April 09, 2008
With a loaded question of that nature, Stephen J. Dubner asked six psychologists and other scientists. Although the question asks about psychology, most respondents seemed to have focused on medications and the brain (and neurological sciences). It’s a “loaded” question because the...
World of Psychology
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April 07, 2008
Libertarian warning: I’m about to advocate a position that comes from my libertarian leanings, and that some people are going to find, if not offensive, pretty peculiar. I’m going to ask you to hear me out, to not adopt a knee-jerk reaction (which I find to be typical of people on all si...
The No Kool Aid Zone
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March 18, 2008
The Choice of Heracles, Paolo di Matteis, 1712 What is it that makes a happy life? People have been asking that for millennia and I have a few minutes while I wait to collect someone, so I might not have a comprehensive answer. The reason I’m asking is that Religion ‘linked to happy life...
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March 06, 2008
Image by John Brillon Freakonomics, one of my favorite blogs (and a great book, too), has gathered up a group of "smart people" — as they say — to discuss what the technology industry and consumers can learn from the Blu-ray/HD DVD format war. What Are the Lessons of the Blu-Ra...
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