Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Here are my most recent reads, largely for the benefit of maphead. Kim Stanley Robinson As you can see, I went on a bit of a Kim Stanley Robinson bender over the last few months. I thoroughly enjoyed the "Science in the Capital" series (40, 50, 60). Great characters, interesting plot, and a...
“Statistics are like a bikini - What they reveal is exciting but what they conceal is vital” (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001688). Freakonomics compares a lot of obscure ideas that instead of everyone thinking it and not saying it, just no one thinks it at all. The ideas covered in the book...
How many a conventionally wise claim one cannot combine apples and oranges? It simply is not done. Oh really? Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner seem to challenge, in their unconventionally unconventional Freakonomics, which is a true intellectual jab at what one supposes he or she believes to hold...
