The Dangers of a Live Twitter Feed
It seems to make all the sense in the world. You are WPMI-TV, the NBC affiliate that covers southern Alabama and some of the Florida Panhandle, and you rent a big electronic billboard to promote your nightly news and weather team. Read More »
SuperFreakonomics Book Club: Sudhir Venkatesh Answers Your Prostitution Questions
Last week we opened up the questioning for Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociologist whose fieldwork on street prostitutes in Chicago is the foundation of a long section of our first chapter. Here are his replies. Thanks to Sudhir and all of you for participating. Read More »
The Global Warming Email We've All Been Waiting For
I got a good chuckle out of this piece by George Monbiot in the Guardian about the recent global warming e-mail controversy.
My view is that the emails aren’t that damaging. Is it surprising that scientists would try to keep work that disagrees with their findings out of journals? Read More »
The Year's Top Thinkers
Foreign Policy released its list of 2009′s Top 100 Global Thinkers. The No. 1 spot goes to Ben Bernanke for “staving off a new Great Depression,” while Obama takes No. 2 for “reimagining America’s role in the world.” A few of our old favorites also made the list. Read More »
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