The same lesson can be learned from one of the most widely read books in history: the Bible. What is the Bible about? Different people will of course answer that question differently. But we could all...
The future is far less knowable than you think.
The fact is that solving problem is hard. If a given problem still exists, you can bet that a lot of people have already come along and failed to solve it. Easy problems evaporate; it is the hard ones...
The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong.
The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them.
That is the idea behind a prize-linked savings (PLS) account.
That is in part because the very words education reform indicate that the question is What’s wrong with our schools? when in reality, the question might be better phrased as Why do American kids know...
Some people would argue that we don’t do a very good job. But taking the long view, that is clearly not true. Consider the historical trend in homicide (not including wars), which is both the most rel...
Some of the most loyal customers any company has are the ones who had a big problem but got treated incredibly well as it was being resolved.
So it may be that going to the hospital slightly increases your odds of surviving if you’ve got a serious problem but increases your odds of dying if you don’t. Such are the vagaries of life.
Según la Administración Nacional de Seguridad de Tráfico en Carreteras (NHTSA), más del 80 por ciento de los asientos para niños están mal instalados.
Resources are not infinite: you cannot solve tomorrow’s problem if you aren’t willing to abandon today’s dud.
Remember those British schoolchildren who made up answers about Mary’s trip to the seashore? The researchers who ran that experiment did a follow-up study, called Helping Children Correctly Say ‘I Don...
Prediction, as Niels Bohr liked to say, is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.
Por cada punto que aumenta el porcentaje de coches de una ciudad que tienen instalado el LoJack, la tasa general de robos disminuye un 20 por ciento.
Parent in a retirement home is more likely to be visited by his grown children if they are expecting a sizable inheritance. But wait, you say: maybe the offspring of wealthy families are simply more c...
Overall, a portfolio of the good to great companies looks like it would have underperformed the S&P 500.
Over time, some ideas do cross the repugnance barrier to become reality. Charging interest on loans. Selling human sperm and eggs. Profiting from a loved one’s premature death. This last example of co...
One can imagine many patients being turned off by the words fecal transplant or, as researchers call it in their academic papers, fecal microbiota transplantation. The slang used by some doctors (shit...
ONCE YOU STRIP AWAY the religious fervor and scientific complexity, an incredibly simple dilemma lies at the heart of global warming. Economists fondly call it an externality. What’s an externality? I...