by Craig Marker | Oct 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Wired.com:Brian Wansink is no new-age diet doctor. He’s the Director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell, where a funhouse of one-way mirrors helps him spy into the hidden psychology behind Americans’ prodigious food intake. Here’s a...
by Craig Marker | Oct 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Freakonomics Blog:Crime rates have a large influence on the choices people make about where to live. The amazing declines in crime over the last fifteen years have been especially strong in big cities, a factor that helped fuel an urban...
by Craig Marker | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Slate.com:Much of the time I save by ignoring the NHL every year is spent following British soccer. I’ve come to love its system of promotion and relegation. The English Premiership, where teams like Manchester United and Liverpool play, is the...
by Craig Marker | Oct 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from the Freakonomics Blog:Stevenson and Wolfers released a new study, “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness,” that is bound to generate a great deal of controversy. By almost any economic or social indicator, the last 35 years have been great for...
by Craig Marker | Oct 4, 2007 | Uncategorized
An interesting idea from Scott Lilienfeld:”The most important psychology experiment that’s never been done would determine whether psychology can save the world.Yes, that statement is admittedly more than a bit hyperbolic. And this experiment will probably never...
