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An Interview with Climategate’s Phil Jones

Phil Jones, the scientist at the center of the Climategate scandal, answers questions from the BBC. Read More »



Freakonomics on TV

Stephen Dubner appears on the Tavis Smiley show and The Bonnie Hunt Show. Read More »



Predicting the Next Enron

Via the Wall Street Journal, here’s further evidence that companies “tweak” quarterly earnings numbers. Joseph Grundfest and Nadya Malenko analyzed almost half a million earnings reports from 1980-2006. They discovered that when companies want to appear more successful than they are, they often massage their per-share earnings numbers upward by a tenth of one cent. Read More »



Couples and Cars

Why do men do most of the driving? Recently I’ve posted articles showing that when men and women ride together the man is much more likely to be behind the wheel (see this link and this link). What do you, the readers, think about this? Read More »