The more complex a problem is, the harder it is to capture good feedback. You can gather a lot of facts, and that may be helpful, but in order to reliably measure cause and effect you need to get bene...
The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn’t be prudent. You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you d...
The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’—which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of part...
That may not be a simple conversation. But when you are dealing with root causes, at least you know you are fighting the real problem and not just boxing with shadows.
Superman and the Bible are plainly cut from the same template: baby Superman and baby Moses are both rescued from certain death, sent off by their desperate parents in a rocket ship/wicker basket, and...
So, absent the chance to make every job applicant work as hard as a college applicant, is there some quick, clever, cheap way of weeding out bad employees before they are hired? Zappos has come up wit...
So how did Roe v. Wade help trigger, a generation later, the greatest crime drop in recorded history? As far as crime is concerned, it turns out that not all children are born equal. Not even close. D...
Shaw reportedly said. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Roland G. Fryer Jr., while discussing his names research on a radio show, took a call from a black woman who was upset with the name just given to her baby niece. It was pronounced shuh-TEED but was i...
Pero por supuesto, eso depende de quién lo haga. Si lo hiciera Al Gore, podría conseguir un segundo premio Nobel de la Paz; si fuera Hugo Chávez, probablemente recibiría pronto una visita de los avion...
Pensemos en ese cuento popular del zar que se enteró de que la provincia de su imperio más afectada por las enfermedades era al mismo tiempo aquella en que había más médicos. ¿Su solución? Inmediatame...
Particular gift is the ability to ask such questions. For instance: If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? Wh...
One teenage boy, Amcher, had been named for the first thing his parents saw upon reaching the hospital: the sign for Albany Medical Center Hospital Emergency Room.
Los sesenta y setenta fueron, en retrospectiva, una época fabulosa para ser delincuente callejero en la mayor parte de las ciudades norteamericanas. Las probabilidades de recibir un castigo eran tan b...
Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.
Las conductas social y económica, añade, «son complejas, y comprender su carácter resulta mentalmente agotador.
Keepers jump left 57 percent of the time and right 41 percent—which means they stay in the center only 2 times out of 100. A leaping keeper may of course still stop a ball aimed at the center, but how...
Karen Abbott reports that the Everleigh also offered sexual delicacies that weren’t available elsewhere—French style, for instance, commonly known today as oral sex.
Just as a warm and moist environment is conducive to the spread of deadly bacteria, the worlds of politics and business especially—with their long time frames, complex outcomes, and murky cause and ef...
It is well and good to opine or theorize about a subject, as humankind is wont to do, but when moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising in...