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• Competition:Win a copy of SuperFreakonomics!

  
  Abha Malpani — Authority: 108
  If you haven’t read, or at least heard of Freakonomics — shame on you. In a nutshell, as put perfectly by the AP , Freakonomics is a book where the authors “crunch numbers about mundane topics to reveal interesting, unexpected conclusions”. For example: What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in ...
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• London Calling

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 767
  Just announced: Levitt and Dubners sold-out lecture at Londons Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) will be webcast live on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 13:00 GMT (thats 8 a.m. Eastern -- or use this handy calculator to find the time where you live). One day earlier, they ...
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• London Calling

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  Just announced: Levitt and Dubner’s sold-out lecture at London’s Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) will be webcast live on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 13:00 GMT (that’s 8 a.m. Eastern — or use this handy calculator to find the time where you live). One day ...
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• The morning coffee is shopping the Terminator

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 130
  Would you like a Terminator of your own? A certain governor of California, Batman, or Summer Glau to call your own? Then you’re in luck! The Terminator is up for auction! (by Jason Barnhart ) Want to join the US Military? Chances are you’re too fat. Or sick. Or dumb. Sorry. In their new book ...
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• Statisticians reject global cooling

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 117
  By SETH BORENSTEIN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.  Only one problem: It’s not true, according to an analysis of the numbers done by several ...
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• Ken Caldeiras Carbon Solution

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 767
  Theres been a brouhaha over whether we "misrepresented" the research and views of the climate scientist Ken Caldeira, whom we write about in the global-warming chapter of SuperFreakonomics. Weve been in constant touch with him over the past few weeks, since we wanted to amend future printings of our book if indeed ...
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• Ken Caldeira’s Carbon Solution

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  There’s been a brouhaha over whether we “misrepresented” the research and views of the climate scientist Ken Caldeira, whom we write about in the global-warming chapter of SuperFreakonomics. We’ve been in constant touch with him over the past few weeks, since we wanted to amend future printings of our book if ...
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• Ken Caldeira’s Carbon Solution

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  There’s been a brouhaha over whether we “misrepresented” the research and views of the climate scientist Ken Caldeira, whom we write about in the global-warming chapter of SuperFreakonomics. We’ve been in constant touch with him over the past few weeks, since we wanted to amend future printings of our book if ...
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• The State of Geoengineering Research

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 767
  As noted earlier , Congress today is holding its first-ever hearings on geoengineering as a potential means to fight global warming.
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• Moral panic? What moral panic?

  
  skepticlawyer — Authority: 511
  Being of a libertarian cast of mind, I’ve often been of the view that all the campaigns about smoking, drugs and obesity are more than a little overdone. It’s not that I think these things are unhealthy — they plainly are. It’s more that I suspect the moral panic is made worse not because we are genuinely ...
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• SuperFreaks: Smart, arrogant, ill-informed

  
  DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science — Authority: 578
  SuperFreakonomics.jpg At the risk of piling on, wed like to add our voice to those who are disappointed by the clumsy unprofessionalism of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubners new book, SuperFreakonomics - at least in regard to its handling of climate change. Assuming that Levitt and Dubners ...
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• Answer to the SuperFreakonomics Quiz: Name This University of Chicago Alum

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  There were many good guesses (Ashcroft, Bork, Corzine, etc.). There were also some really awful guesses, like my colleagues Robert Lucas and Gary Becker, who fit many of the criteria, but obviously I was not meeting for the first time last week.
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• Answer to the SuperFreakonomics Quiz: Name This University of Chicago Alum

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  There were many good guesses (Ashcroft, Bork, Corzine, etc.). There were also some really awful guesses, like my colleagues Robert Lucas and Gary Becker, who fit many of the criteria, but obviously I was not meeting for the first time last week.
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• Answer to the SuperFreakonomics Quiz: Name This University of Chicago Alum

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 767
  There were many good guesses (Ashcroft, Bork, Corzine, etc.). There were also some really awful guesses, like my colleagues Robert Lucas and Gary Becker, who fit many of the criteria, but obviously I was not meeting for the first time last week.
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• Introducing the SuperFreakonomics Virtual Book Club: Meet Emily Oster

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 767
  Welcome to the first installment of the SuperFreakonomics Book Club. We know youre all busy, and scattered around the globe too. So it wouldnt be convenient for all of us to regularly gather in someones living room and talk about the book while sharing bean dip. So lets harness this Internet thingy and try something ...
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• Introducing the SuperFreakonomics Virtual Book Club: Meet Emily Oster

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  Welcome to the first installment of the SuperFreakonomics Book Club. We know you’re all busy, and scattered around the globe too. So it wouldn’t be convenient for all of us to regularly gather in someone’s living room and talk about the book while sharing bean dip. So let’s harness this Internet thingy and ...
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• Freakonomics etc

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 507
  This little piece from the U.Chicago Magazine has a nice little discussion of the Freakonomics approach centering on Jim Heckmans [critical] view. I have read some really good pieces in that publication. Shame we dont have anything remotely equivalent. ...
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• First draft attempt at Argumentum ad Galileo

  
  Backseat driving — Authority: 418
  Lets try it: Argumentum ad Galileo: Risum procul Galileo Rideo procul mihi Ergo sum tunc Galieo What Im trying to say: The Galileo Fallacy: They laughed at Galileo Theyre laughing at me Therefore I am the next Galileo Its not easy trying to write something in a language ...
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• Will India’s greatest questioner raise his hand?

  
  sans serif — Authority: 467
  Stephen J. Dubner , the journalist who co-authored Freakonomics with the economist Steven D. Levitt , writes on his blog that the most interesting question thrown in the run-up to their new book, SuperFreakonomics , has come from an (unnamed) Indian journalist. In fact, the blog post is titled: “The ...
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• An open letter to Steve Levitt

  
  Earthman, Come Home — Authority: 480
  An open letter to Steve Levitt : By now there have been many detailed dissections of everything that is wrong with the treatment of climate in Superfreakonomics , but what has been lost amidst all that extensive discussion is how really simple it would have been to get this stuff right. The problem wasn’t ...
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