Adderall Speculation
Students apparently consume mass quantities of the performance-enhancing drug Adderall during exam time. Normally the price is $3 for 10 mg., but it rises during exam week to at least $5. One student reports that in his suburban Dallas hometown drug dealers, realizing this price variation, speculated by buying up large supplies of the drug at $3 and dumping them on the market during exam time, hoping to sell at $5. Read More »
Looking to Blog Readers for Good Ideas to Reduce Teen Shootings
In the wake of the national publicity that accompanied the beating death of Chicago Public Schools student Derrion Albert, the issue of teen violence has come to the fore.
Violence toward students in the Chicago Public Schools is, however, neither new nor rare. Read More »
A Very Renewable Energy Source
Faced with a plague of rabbits, some wild and some abandoned pets, the city of Stockholm is pursuing a unique pest-control strategy. The city is hunting, deep-freezing, and shipping the rabbits to a heating plant in central Sweden where they’re processed for fuel. Three thousand rabbits have been culled this year. Read More »
The SuperFreakonomics Global-Warming Fact Quiz
By the time you finish this blog post, you will understand why we differ from our critics in our conclusions. Read More »
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