Baby Steps to the Internet
Hoping to harness new parents’ love of photographing their babies, researchers at the University of Washington have put together a computer program that tracks a child’s development in photos. With a photographic record of each milestone (first steps, first word spoken, and so on), pediatricians and parents can better detect early signs of developmental problems. Read More »
Macroeconomists, Take Cover
Business Week‘s cover story slams macroeconomists. Dilbert doesn’t think much of economists either: Read More »
Another Reason to Hate Spam
The conventional wisdom holds that electronic correspondence is unequivocally better for the environment than snail mail, but a new study finds a surprising result concerning the 62 trillion spam emails sent last year. The energy used to transmit, process, and filter spam could have powered 2.4 million homes, or all the foreclosed homes in the Read More »
Fun Is Better on Deadline
If you give your mother a gift card this Mother’s Day, make sure it expires soon; otherwise she might not enjoy it. That’s the suggestion of this Atlantic article (with a rather familiar headline), citing research by the economists Suzanne B. Shu and Ayelet Gneezy. They found that if you put a tight deadline on Read More »
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