IMPROVING PARKING

The End of Parking Misery

HOW PANDEMICS SPREAD

Modern-Day Typhoid Marys

CELL PHONES DURING DISASTERS

How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters

LOW WATER ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi River Faces Shipping Freeze as Water Levels Drop

SAN FRANCISCO'S TECH BOOM

How Much Tech Can One City Take? | Modern Luxury

SWITCHING TO MASS TRANSIT

Even American Drivers Like Mass Transit More Than They Think

MONTESSORI IN THE UNITED STATES

The Great Montessori Schism - Atlantic Mobile

BUS STIGMA

Why We Should Stop Talking About 'Bus Stigma' - Commute - The Atlantic Cities

THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

Khan Academy Founder Salman Khan Breaks Down The Future Of Education And Learning

HOUSING FOR THE HOMELESS

How High Design Can Help the Homeless - Housing - The Atlantic Cities

BOOK, $20 per Gallon

$20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better:Amazon:Books

THE ROLE OF SHORT TERM ENERGY STORAGE

Guest Post: The Value of Short-term Energy Storage for Renewable Energy | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network

ARE SHOPPING MALLS IN TROUBLE?

Jeff Jordan

LOSS AVERSION AND THE BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS

People Hate Losses and That Affects U.S. Budget Talks- Bloomberg

ARE ALTRUISM AND FAIRNESS HARD WIRED?

Does Altruism Actually Exist? - Atlantic Mobile

VIOLENCE AND SELF DEFENSE

The Truth about Violence : 3 Principles of Self-Defense : Sam Harris

CALIFORNIA OUT MIGRATION

California demographic shift: More people leaving than moving in - Los Angeles Times

THE EFFECTS OF LIGHT POLLUTION

LA Times - Let there be dark

AUTOMATION AND EMPLOYMENT

Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines - Atlantic Mobile

THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF LYING

What Lying Actually Does to Your Brain and Body Every Day

THE EFFECT OF DISASTERS ON EMPLOYMENT

The Path of Economic Recovery from Superstorm Sandy - Liberty Street Economics

MULTIFAMILY APPLIANCE EFFICIENCY AND UTILITY COSTS

Renting Inefficiency | Energy Economics Exchange

RANDOMNESS

What does randomness look like? | Empirical Zeal

THE MEXICAN MIDDLE CLASS

the americas

JERRY SEINFELD

Jerry Seinfeld Intends to Die Standing Up

BOOK, THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE

The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't:Amazon:Books

MENTAL ILLNESS AND MASS MURDER

I am Adam Lanza's Mother - The Blue Review | The Blue Review

CELL PHONES AND DISASTERS

How Cellphone Companies Have Resisted Rules for Disasters

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PERSUADING AND CONVINCING

The Difference Between Persuading and Convincing

DISASTER BONDS

Super Storm Sandy Recovery: The Case For Disaster Bonds

EXIT, VOICE AND LOYALTY

Exit, Voice, and Albert O. Hirschman - Justin Fox - Harvard Business Review

CAN HISTORY BE TRUE?

Can History Tell the Truth?

LUCK AND SUCCESS

Of Luck and Success — Economic View - NYTimes.com

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SCARCITY

Choosing Poorly

BOOK, AUTOMATE THIS

Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World:Amazon:Books

TSUNAMI WARNINGS ON THE OREGON COAST

New Ways to Warn Threaten Tsunami Sirens in Oregon - NYTimes.com

EMOTIONS AND MEMORIES

The story of the self

TOO MUCH DATA HURTS DECISION MAKING

Why Too Much Data Disables Your Decision Making | Psychology Today

BAYES THEOREM SIMPLIFIED

Thomas Bayes and Bayes’s Theorem

ACCOUNTABILITY

Why Accountability Is So Muddled, and How to Un-Muddle It

THE GOVERNMENT VS. PREDICTION MARKETS

Why economists love Intrade and why the government hates it

FEUDAL SECURITY IN THE INTERNET AGE

Feudal Security

WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BE LIKE

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The future will not be cool - Salon.com

THE ECONOMICS OF PAYDAY LOANS

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Why Doesn't Someone Undercut Payday Lending?

INCOME INEQUALITY

Inequality is not just about taxes and education | Economic Policy Institute

THE TRUTH ABOUT FACT CHECKING

NEW SOUTH JOURNALISM: Fact-Checking Feature

THE CHALLENGES FACING CASINOS

Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life

CONTROLLING EMOTIONS THROUGH DISTANCING TECHNIQUES

Distancing Techniques in Cognitive Therapy

ALGAE AS AN OIL SOURCE

Grow Your Own Energy

SHOULD WILDFIRES BE FOUGHT AGGRESSIVELY?

The Fire Next Time

HURRICANES AS ECONOMIC STIMULUS

Storm Stimulus

ARE FLAME RETARDANTS WORTH THE RISK?

How Dangerous Is Your Couch?

SHOULD DOCTORS BE ABLE TO HELP YOU DIE?

May Doctors Help You to Die?

STEAM FROM SUNLIGHT

Making steam without boiling water, thanks to nanoparticles - The Washington Post

MORALITY IN ANIMALS

The kindness of beasts

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE IMPLEMENTATION BARRIERS

A Simple Health-Care Fix Fizzles Out

DATA CENTERS BIG ELECTRICITY USERS

Data Barns in a Farm Town, Gobbling Power and Flexing Muscle

BOOK, PUBLIC APPEARANCES, PRIVATE REALITIES

Public Appearances, Private Realities: The Psychology of Self-Monitoring (Series of Books in Psychology):Amazon:Books

BOOK, SILK PARACHUTE

Silk Parachute:Amazon:Books

BOOK, TOO BIG TO FALL

Too Big to Fall: America's Failing Infrastructure and the Way Forward:Amazon:Books

THE ECONOMICS OF ROCK TODAY

Genius : The Nickelback Story

PAY ATTENTION TO BASE RATES

Mental Model: Bias From Insensitivity To Base Rates

ARE PIPELINES SAFE?

Pipelines Explained: How Safe are America’s 2.5 Million Miles of Pipelines? - ProPublica

RISK ASSESSMENT AND AVALANCHES

The Avalanche That Killed Three Skiers at Stevens Pass | Snow Sports | OutsideOnline.com

THE TECHNOLOGY BEHIND OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION

When the Nerds Go Marching In - Atlantic Mobile

HOW TO TELL IF A STORY IS FALSE

True or False? Pay Attention to a Story's Structure and Detect Whether It's Made Up

PRODUCTIVITY AND THE FORTY HOUR WORK WEEK

Bring back the 40-hour work week - Salon.com

BOOK, WHY EVERYONE ELSE IS A HYPOCRITE

Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind:Amazon:Books

DON'T DIMINISH YOUR PRESENTATION WITH WEAK POINTS

The Presentation Mistake You Don’t Know You’re Making

MANAGERS AND THE PYGMALION EFFECT

The Pygmalion Effect

INSURERS' RESPONSE TO MAJOR DISASTERS

How Insurers Can Foil the Next Hurricane Sandy | Wired Business | Wired.com

FIXING SOFTWARE PATENTS

Let's Go Back to Patenting the 'Solution,' Not the 'Problem' | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

THE LOGISTICS OF DISASTERS

How Store Shelves Stay Stocked Even After a Sandy-Sized Disaster | Wired Business | Wired.com

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION

Why the Answer to Motivation Is You | Greatist

SHOULD BAD FORECASTERS BE SUED?

The Risks of Trusting Experts

WARMTH OR COMPETENCE

Warmth or Competence – Not Both

FREE COLLEGE COURSES FOR ALL

Washington Post

HURRICANES AND SUBWAYS

For New York's Subway, Sandy's Devastation May Be Just the Beginning - Atlantic Mobile

THE INTERNET IS NOT GREEN

Power, Pollution and the Internet

IS CALIFORNIA A TOXIC STATE?

Toxic State Syndrome: As California Declines, Texas Rises

WHEN THINGS GO WRONG FOR RISK MANAGERS

The Woman Who Took the Fall for JPMorgan Chase

EXPERIENCE, MEMORY, AND DECISIONS

How Memories of Experience Influence Behavior

CONTEXT AND CREATIVITY

7 Ways To Stimulate Your Capacity For Creativity

CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES UNDER SIEGE

California's community colleges staggering during hard times

GERRYMANDERING THE POLITICAL PROCESS

The League of Dangerous Mapmakers

DID BABY BOOMERS DESTROY THE ECONOMY?

Who Destroyed the Economy? The Case Against the Baby Boomers

WHAT MOTIVATES US TO WORK

The science behind what motivates us to get up for work every day

FALSE IMAGES

Public Books — Errol Morris, Forensic Epistemologist

LIVING LONG THE GREEK WAY

The Island Where People Forget to Die

THE POLITICS OF OCEAN REGULATION

health science

REGULATING PHARMACIES

health science

SELLING SWIMMING POOLS IN A DOWN MARKET

Life of a salesman: Selling success, when the American dream is downsized

APARTMENT BROKER IN NEW YORK

The Broke Broker: He’s Got Keys to the Best Apartments, But Lacks One of His Own | Observer

THE PERSISTENCE OF BAD INFORMATION

Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected

FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERROR IN THE WORKPLACE

Fix the Machine, Not the Person

INVESTOR ILLITERACY AND THE CHALLENGE OF DISCLOSURE

Investor Demands (More! Less!) Show Financial Illiteracy

THE UNRELIABILITY OF EYEWITNESSES

Criminal Justice

IS ACIDIFICATION DESTROYING THE OCEANS?

health science

SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES

A Fish Story

MUNICIPAL EMBEZZLEMENT IN A SMALL TOWN

Rita Crundwell and the Dixon Embezzlement

SOCCER VIOLENCE IN ARGENTINA

Soccer Violence in Argentina : Sports : OutsideOnline.com

CONTROLLING EMOTIONS THROUGH DISTANCING

Distancing Techniques in Cognitive Therapy

BUILD A RELATIONSHIP IN 45 MINUTES

How to find true friends (and love) in 45 minutes (Wired UK)

CENTERING TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE

How to Make Performance Anxiety an Asset Instead of a Liability

AN INVENTORY OF MENTAL MODELS

Mental Models

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMAIL

BBC Column: Psychological self-defence for the age of email

BOOK, PANDORA'S RISK

Pandora's Risk: Uncertainty at the Core of Finance (Columbia Business School Publishing):Amazon:Books

BOOK, THE TALENT CODE

The Talent Code: Greatness Isn't Born. It's Grown. Here's How.:Amazon:Books

WILL ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS LEAD TO INFINITE ENERGY?

The Answer Is (Artificially) Blowing in the Wind

TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHING

At a High-Tech School, Supportive Adults Are the Real Key to Success

THE POLITICS OF GMO LABELING

Can Campaign Ads Convince Voters Not to Care What's In Their Food?

ENHANCING TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

A High-Tech Solution to the Writing Crisis

FIXING CALIFORNIA'S DEATH PENALTY

It's Time for California to End Its Death Penalty

PRODUCT TESTING

Why Things Fail: From Tires to Helicopter Blades, Everything Breaks Eventua

THE FUTURE OF GREEN AGRICULTURE

Big, Smart and Green: A Revolutionary Vision for Modern Farming

BOOK, RESILIENCE

Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back:Amazon:Books

BOOK, THE HONEST TRUTH ABOUT DISHONESTY

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves:Amazon:Books

POLLS AND FORECASTING

Nate Silver : The polls aren’t wrong

DO SECURITY CAMERAS DO ANY GOOD?

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BOOK, THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF JOBS

The New Geography of Jobs:Amazon:Books

BOOK, WAIT

Wait: The Art and Science of Delay:Amazon:Books

DESALINATION FOR THE MASSES

1 | An Extra Cheap Way To Get Salt Out Of Water Could Help Make The World Less Thirsty | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

RURAL POVERTY

Rural Minorities Ponder The American Dream From The Bottom Rung Of The Econ

SLEEP VS. QUIET WAKEFULNESS

When You Can't Sleep, How Good Is Lying in Bed With Your Eyes Closed?

THE PERSISTENCE OF MISINFORMATION

Misinformation: Why It Sticks and How to Fix It

TERMINAL ILLNESS AND SUICIDE

Should the terminally ill control their deaths?

URBAN SUBURBS

Invasion of the faux cities

WHY STUDENTS CHEAT ON TESTS

Why Students Cheat on Tests : New York Magazine

WHAT'S GOING ON IN BROOKLYN?

The Hollow Boom Of Brooklyn: Behind Veneer Of Gentrification, Life Gets Worse For Many

BOOK, FLY BY WIRE

Fly by Wire:Amazon:Books

BOOK, THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The Collapse of American Criminal Justice:Amazon:Books

BOOKS, LIARS AND OUTLIERS

Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive:Amazon:Books

LEARNING FROM CLOSE CALLS

Close Calls Are Near Disasters, Not Lucky Breaks

DISCIPLINE VS. MOTIVATION

Get Disciplined, Not Motivated : Blog Of Impossible Things

CALORIES ARE NOT EQUAL

The Hidden Truths about Calories

WHO SHOULD GET CREDIT FOR OHIO'S RECOVERY?

Did Barack Obama Save Ohio?

DELIBERATE PRACTICE

A Better Way to Practice

NIGHTMARES CAN KILL

Can You Die From A Nightmare?

INVESTING IN LONG SHOTS

Black Swan Farming

FRACKING IS SLOWING GLOBAL WARMING

A Fracking Good Story

NATURAL GAS IS PUTTING RENEWABLE ENERGY ON HOLD

Abundant Natural Gas and Oil Are Putting the Kabosh on Clean Energy

THE SALTON SEA

The Salton Sea: Death and Politics in the Great American Water Wars

WINNING THE WAR ON POVERTY

We’re Winning the War on Poverty

PREDICTING THE WEATHER

The Weatherman Is Not a Moron

RUSSIAN ICEBREAKERS

Breaking the Ice: Russian nuclear-powered ice-breakers

GOOGLE MAPS

How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything

HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING

Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading

DO WHAT HURTS

Lean into the pain (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

HOW SHOULD TRUANCY BE PUNISHED?

The Truancy Trap

EVERYONE NEEDS RECESS

The False Promise of Back-to-School Commercials - Atlantic Mobile

THE ARGUMENTS FOR NEW VOTING LAWS

New Voting Laws: Bending the Arc of History Away From Justice - Atlantic Mobile

IS POSITIVE THINKING ALWAYS POSITIVE?

The Positive Power of Negative Thinking - NYTimes.com

DELIBERATE PRACTICE

What is Deliberate Practice

VETERANS ON CAMPUS

Lonely Men on Campus: Student Veterans Struggle to Fit In - Atlantic Mobile

SCHOOL ABSENTEEISM

Who's Really Skipping School? - Atlantic Mobile

SOUTH CAROLINA'S VOTER ID LAW

In South Carolina, Shockingly Candid Talk About Voter Discrimination - Atlantic Mobile

CASINO ECONOMICS

Foxwoods Is Fighting for Its Life

LAGUARDIA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL

Traffic

THE POWER OF CHECKLISTS

The Power of Checklists

GENERALISTS AND SPECIALISTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND INVESTING

Generalists vs. Specialists (And the Specialist’s Dilemma)

IS A UNIVERSAL DIGITAL LIBRARY POSSIBLE?

The Library of Utopia

MOSQUITOES

Why This Could Be the Worst Mosquito Summer of All Time : New York Magazine

WHAT HAPPENED AT MF GLOBAL

The last days of MF Global

DOES COUNTER-INSURGENCY WORK?

BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: HOW TO KILL A RATIONAL PEASANT

CRIMINAL JUSTICE ON INDIAN RESERVATIONS

Tiny little laws:

AGRICULTURE AND GLOBAL WARMING

How To Feed the World After Climate Change

MENTAL ILLNESS AND PRISONS

An American Gulag: Descending into Madness at Supermax

A STRONGER AGRICULTURE SECTOR: URBAN PLANNING AND IMMIGRANT LABOR?

How To Make U.S. Agriculture Even Stronger

LIFE IN AN APPLE STORE

Apple’s Retail Army, Long on Loyalty but Short on Pay

THE PERILS OF ADDERALL

How I hacked my brain with Adderall: a cautionary tale

FIGHTING RABIES

Undead: The Rabies Virus Remains a Medical Mystery

CAN BETTER URBAN PLANNING IMPROVE MENTAL HEALTH?

Modern life is killing us

THE HAZARDS OF METAL RECYCLING

Metal recycling firms burgeon in state, but regulators can't keep up

WHY IS THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE CONTROVERSIAL?

Keystone

BOOK, WHY NATIONS FAIL

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty:Amazon:Kindle Store

BOOK, QUIET

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking:Amazon:Books

ARE NATURAL RESOURCES A BLESSING OR A CURSE?

Resource Rich, Cash Poor

IS EXTREME CALORIE RESTRICTION CRAZY?

The Ultra-Extreme Calorie Restriction Diet Test : New York Magazine

THE GENETICS OF SUCCESS, ORCHIDS AND DANDELIONS

The Science of Success - Atlantic Mobile

PROACTIVE EMPLOYEES DO BETTER WITH INTROVERTED MANAGERS

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RISK MANAGEMENT: 5 NEGLECTS

Homeland Security Watch » Near-misses, mitigation, and resilience

BOOK, THE RIGHTEOUS MIND

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion:Amazon:Books

SHOULD ID BE REQUIRED TO VOTE?

Why Pennsylvania's Voter ID Law Is Unconstitutional - Atlantic Mobile

THE CONFEDERATE FLAG IN THE SOUTH TODAY

America's Simple-Minded Obsession With the Confederate Flag - Atlantic Mobile

THE POLITICS OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM

Daryl Johnson: I tried to warn them - Salon.com

WHAT'S WRONG WITH TAMPA?

Tampa: America’s hottest mess - Salon.com

WHO DESERVES CREDIT FOR YOUR SUCCESSES?

The Credit Illusion - NYTimes.com

DID THE REPEAL OF GLASS-STEAGALL ENABLE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS?

Steven Pearlstein: Shattering the Glass-Steagall myth - The Washington Post

EFFECTIVE PARENTING

Raising Successful Children - NYTimes.com

Social Impact Bonds

The Test Case Behind Goldman's Investment in Jail Inmates - Businessweek

WHO SURVIVES SHIPWRECKS? THE CREW

Chivalry is a myth: In shipwrecks, it’s every man for himself - Slate Magazine

THE ECONOMICS OF DATING

The economics of serial dating: A case study | Bundle

SINGLE MOTHERS, WHY IT HAPPENS

Myths about single mothers: What bloggers and pundits are getting wrong about them. - Slate Magazine

THE DECLINE IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT

A Record Decline in Government Jobs: Implications for the Economy and America's Workforce

OVERREACTION TO RARE EVENTS

Overreaction and Overly Specific Reactions to Rare Risks

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES PROFITABILITY

The Southwest Secret

BOTTLED WATER ECONOMICS

Why Are Poland Spring Bottles So Crinkly?

FASHION SUPPLY CHAIN

Polka Dots Are In? Polka Dots It Is!

GET YOUR FLU SHOT

The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army

INCOME DISPARITY IN AMERICA

The Surprising Truths About Income Inequality in America: Big Issues: GQ

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN PRISONS

Is long-term solitary confinement torture? : The New Yorker

PRISON SENTENCING REFORM

Rethinking “tough on crime”

OIL PIPELINE SPILL IN MICHIGAN

The Dilbit Disaster: Inside The Biggest Oil Spill You've Never Heard Of, Pa

THE EVOLUTION OF THE PLAYGROUND

Reimagining Recreation

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN SMALL TOWN IOWA

Postville, Iowa, Is Up for Grabs - NYTimes.com

BOOK, FINDING FLOW

Amazon.com: Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life (Masterminds Series) (9780465024117): Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Books

BOOK, STEVE JOBS

Amazon.com: Steve Jobs (9781451648539): Walter Isaacson: Books

CAN MIXED INCOME SCHOOLS WORK?

Rich Kid, Poor Kid: How Mixed Neighborhoods Could Save America's Schools - Atlantic Mobile

BOOK: IT'S YOUR SHIP

Amazon.com: It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy (9780446529112): Michael Abrashoff: Books

JASON ALEXANDER ON GUN CONTROL

TwitLonger — When you talk too much for Twitter

DO KIDS RAISED BY SINGLE MOMS HAVE MORE PROBLEMS?

Single Motherhood: Worse for children. - Slate Magazine

THE HIGH COST OF SECRECY

TomDispatch - Salon.com

SHOULD KIDS BE ALLOWED TO WALK TO SCHOOL ALONE?

Unleash our kids - Salon.com

FUNDAMENTAL ATTRIBUTION ERRORS

BBC - Future - Health - Why I am always unlucky but you are always careless

SHOULD MORTGAGE TRUSTEE'S BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE CONDITION OF FORECLOSED HOMES?

L.A. sues US Bank over blighted, abandoned homes - latimes.com

MONEYBALL FOR HEALTH CARE

Lower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker

MONEYBALLING CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Moneyballing Criminal Justice - Atlantic Mobile

STOPPING FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS

Lawsuits Should Not Be a Free-For All - Atlantic Mobile

SETTING BOUNDARIES ON LAWSUITS

A New Code for Reliable Justice - Atlantic Mobile

THE CULTURE OF POVERTY

Scholars Return to ‘Culture of Poverty’ Ideas - NYTimes.com

BEHAVIOR CODES

A Culture of Poverty - Atlantic Mobile

REFORMING DRUG LAWS

“A tipping point is happening” - Salon.com

BOOK: MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN

Amazon.com: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (9780143120537): Joshua Foer: Books

BOOK: TOP SECRET AMERICA

Amazon.com: Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (9780316182218): Dana Priest, William M. Arkin: Books

HOW UNDERDOGS WIN

David And Goliath: The Art And Science Of The Underdog

THE IMPORTANCE OF RESILIENCE

‘Resilience’ Author Andrew Zolli on the Secrets of Failure - The Daily Beast

THE ART OF THE COMPLIMENT

Print - The Perfect Compliment - Esquire

TERRORISM DOESN'T WORK

Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work - baltimoresun.com

BOOK: TEXAS TOUGH

Amazon.com: Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (9780312680473): Robert Perkinson: Books

IS CCTV EFFECTIVE AT REDUCING CRIME?

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/shb10/angela1.pdf

PREDICTION

Predicting The Future

GUN CONTROL IN ARIZONA

FORTUNE Features

HONOR SYSTEM AT THE FARM STAND

NPR.org » The Psychology Of The Honor System At The Farm Stand

AIRPLANES COLLIDE AT 37,000 FEET

William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash | The Magazine | Vanity Fair

ARE LOW BIRTHRATES SLOWING DOWN EUROPE?

Declining Birthrates Key to Europe's Decline

DO PRIVATE PRISONS SAVE MONEY?

Private Prisons’ Cost Benefits Debated - NYTimes.com

NO ROOM FOR MEDIOCRE SCIENTISTS

We Don’t Need More Scientists—We Need Better Ones

TRIGGERS FOR THE NEXT ECONOMIC BOOM

Three seeds for America's future economic boom

SERIAL BOMBERS

A Serial Bomber in Phoenix | Stratfor

HOW DO WE GET TECHNOLOGY MOVING AGAIN?

Peter Thiel’s Rise to Wealth and Libertarian Futurism : The New Yorker

MIMETIC DESIRE AND BRANDS

Mimetic Desire in the 21st Century --mmoorejones

WHY ARE SO MANY AMERICANS IN PRISON?

Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America : The New Yorker

DOES BRAINSTORMING WORK?

Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker

MORTALITY 1900 AND 2010

Chart: What Killed Us, Then and Now - Atlantic Mobile

BOOK: THE INFORMATION DIET

Amazon.com: The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption (9781449304683): Clay A. Johnson: Books

REAL ESTATE FRAUD IN BUFFALO

The Phantom King of Buffalo

PUBLIC HOUSING REDEVELOPMENT IN CHICAGO

The last tower:

RISK MANAGEMENT AND FAILURE TO RESCUE

Atul Gawande — Failure and Rescue

INTELLIGENCE AND BIASES

Research Shows That the Smarter People Are, the More Susceptible They Are to Cognitive Bias : The New Yorker

HEALTH CARE AND DISABILITY

Our great healthcare denial - Healthcare Reform - Salon.com

STOP AND FRISK IN NEW YORK CITY

The stop-and-frisk crisis - AlterNet - Salon.com

THE PAPER CLIP

The history of the paper clip: It was invented in 1899. It hasn’t been improved upon since. - Slate Magazine

THE COCAINE BUSINESS

How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions - NYTimes.com

BOOK: THE CITY THAT BECAME SAFE

Amazon.com: The City that Became Safe: New York's Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control (Studies in Crime and Public Policy) (9780199844425): Franklin E. Zimring: Books

SECURING THE MIDDLE EAST'S FOOD SUPPLY

Will the Middle East starve? - Middle East - Salon.com

WHY DO PEOPLE CHOKE? PERFORMANCE AND LOSS AVERSION

Why do people choke when the stakes are high? Loss aversion may be the culprit

QUEUEING THEORY

Queueing theory: What people hate most about waiting in line. - Slate Magazine

BOOK: THE LAST HARVEST

Amazon.com: Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town: Real Estate Development from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway (9780743235976): Witold Rybczynski: Books

POSITIVE COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES

Your words matter - Neuroscience - Salon.com

URBAN REVITALIZATION IN NEW JERSEY

Salon.com » Casinos aren’t the future Mobile

THE AGE OF ANXIETY

Salon.com » Our new era of anxiety Mobile

IGNORING THE EVIDENCE

What do you do when the evidence says you’re wrong? | Farnam Street

YOU ARE NOT THE CENTER OF UNIVERSE

David Foster Wallace — The Truth With A Whole Lot Of Rhetorical Bullshit Pared Away | Farnam Street

THE LIMITATIONS OF MARGINAL THINKING

How Will You Measure Your Life? | Farnam Street

TOO MUCH MEANINGLESS DATA

Noise and Signal — Nassim Taleb | Farnam Street

THE POLITICAL MIND

Amazon.com: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain (9781615513857): George Lakoff: Books

BOOK: WHY PEOPLE OBEY THE LAW

Amazon.com: Why People Obey the Law (9780691126739): Tom R. Tyler: Books

POLICY CANCELLATIONS TARGET HIV PATIENTS

Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage

DRONE WARFARE

Politics: The Rise of the Killer Drones: How America Goes to War in Secret

WHY US HEALTH CARE COSTS ARE SO HIGH

McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care

THE HISTORY OF CHICKENS

How the Chicken Conquered the World

IS THE HEALTH INSURANCE MANDATE A SLIPPERY SLOPE?

Slippery-Slope Logic vs. Health Care Law - Economic View - NYTimes.com

JUVENILE JUSTICE IN COLORADO

Direct Fail

NAMES 3

What’s in a Name? (Part 3)

NAMES 2

What’s in a Name? (Part 2)

NAMES 1

What’s in a Name? (Part 1)

THE NEW GEOGRAPHY OF JOBS

American History

SUCCESSFUL CHARTER SCHOOLS IN LOS ANGELES

How Green Dot Charter Turned Around L.A.'s Worst Schools

US MEXICAN RELATIONS AND IMMIGRATION

Salon.com » A better border is possible Mobile

COAL FIRES

Fire in the Hole | Travel | Smithsonian Magazine

HUMANE CONDITIONS FOR CHICKENS

California's egg-farm law prompts a push for national standards - latimes.com

LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN HEALTH CARE COSTS

Many hospitals, doctors offer cash discount for medical bills - latimes.com

CONTAMINATED TOWN IN KANSAS

Last Ones Left in a Toxic Kansas Town

BOOK: POWER AND PLENTY

Amazon.com: Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) (9780691143279): Ronald Findlay, Kevin H. O'Rourke: Books

THE RISE IN AUTISM DIAGNOSES

Discovering Autism

POTATOES

How the Potato Changed the World

REGULATING FISHING

The Gloucester Fish War

UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE AND LIMITING STUPID LAWS

It's Not About Broccoli!: The False Case Against Health Care

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FRAUD

NPR.org » Psychology Of Fraud: Why Good People Do Bad Things

OVERCOMING TRAUMA

Augusten Burroughs

A HISTORY OF STOMACH PROBLEMS

Gutted

IS BREAD BAD FOR YOU?

White Bread Kills

WILLPOWER AND DEFERRED GRATIFICATION

The Chocolate Machine That Can Improve Your Willpower - Businessweek

FLAME RETARDANTS AND PUBLIC SAFETY

Chemical manufacturers rely on fear to push flame retardant furniture standards - chicagotribune.com

HEALTH CARE SECTOR EMPLOYMENT

Healthcare jobs lift Pittsburgh from recession - latimes.com

INTERNET MARKETING SCAMS

Scamworld: 'Get rich quick' schemes mutate into an online monster | The Verge

LA BURGERS

Empire of the Bun - Features - Los Angeles magazine

WHY WE ARE WIRED FOR CONFIRMATION BIAS

New Statesman - You agree with this column

BOOK: THE MATTHEW EFFECT

Amazon.com: The Matthew Effect: How Advantage Begets Further Advantage (9780231149488): Daniel Rigney: Books

NATURAL FOOD FLAVOR

Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good

NYFA IN NIGERIA

How the New York Film Academy discovered gold in the developing world

GEORGE BUSH IN THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD

Truth or Consequences

FOOD DESERTS AND OBESITY

Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity

BOOK: SITUATIONS MATTER

Amazon.com: Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World (9781594488184): Sam Sommers: Books

BOOK: EXTREME FEAR

Amazon.com: Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger (Macsci) (9780230103481): Jeff Wise: Books

HOW MEMORY WORKS

The Fatal Flaw of the Storyteller | Psychology Today

BOOK: FLOURISH

Amazon.com: Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being (9781439190760): Martin E. P. Seligman: Books

EVERYONE PAYS TAXES

The taxes Americans really pay, in two graphs

BOOK: THE SCIENCE OF TRUST

Amazon.com: The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples (9780393705959): John M. Gottman: Books

BUSINESS TRAVEL AS A WAY OF LIFE

The Life

YOUR BRAIN ON PARASITES

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

STUPID GAMES

Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’

ARE RETIREMENTS DRIVING THE DECLINE IN THE WORKFORCE?

Here's Why You Shouldn't Freak Out About the Shrinking Workforce - Atlantic Mobile

BOOK: OUT OF CHARACTER

Amazon.com: Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us (9780307717757): David DeSteno, Piercarlo Valdesolo: Books

BARRIERS TO GETTING PRIVATE PAY HEALTH INSURANCE

BlueCross BlueShield of Texas' blueprint for denying health policies.

LOW END RESTAURANTS ARE HIGH RISK OCCUPATIONS

Takeout story: Behind bulletproof glass and out on a bike for a Chinese res

SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

The Gray Box: An investigative look at solitary confinement

HOW ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION CREATES JOBS

Environmental regulation doesn't kill jobs; it creates them.

CREATIVITY IN CORPORATIONS

Warm Showers, Friction, And Failure: Jonah Lehrer On The Keys To Creativity

IMPROVING PARKING LOTS

Can parking lots be great?

CONSERVATIVES, LIBERALS, AND VALUES

‘The Righteous Mind,’ by Jonathan Haidt

BOOK: IS EXPERIENCE A GOOD TEACHER?

Amazon.com: The Ambiguities of Experience (Messenger Lectures) (9780801448775): James March: Books

SHADOW INVENTORY

This Reporter Waded Into The Wreckage Of The Foreclosure Crisis And Found Out It Was Far From Over

COMPENSATING SUPERSTARS

Talent Grab

FIGHTING CANCER

The Treatment

LYING AND SPYING

pandoras briefcase

ALCOHOL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT

Drinking Games

ENTREPRENEURS AND RISK

The Sure Thing

FOOTBALL AND DOGFIGHTING

pandoras briefcase

BEAR STEARNS AND OVERCONFIDENCE

Cocksure

BEHIND THE SCENES AT SOTHEBY'S

On the Market

BOOK: BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL

Amazon.com: Bargaining with the Devil: When to Negotiate, When to Fight: Robert Mnookin: Books

BOOK: ON WRITING WELL

Amazon.com: On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (9780060891541): William Zinsser: Books

BOOK: A MIND OF ITS OWN

Amazon.com: A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives (9780393331639): Cordelia Fine: Books

PRIVATIZING INFRASTRUCTURE

More states privatizing their infrastructure. Are they making a mistake?

MEDICAL BILLS ARE ARBITRARY

An emergency room story to make anyone ill - latimes.com

HOW DOES DAVID BEAT GOLIATH?

gladwell dot com : in the air

GENIUSES, PRODIGIES, AND LATE BLOOMERS

Late Bloomers

WILL PEAK OIL KILL SUBURBS?

Spread Reckoning: U.S. Suburbs Face Twin Perils of Climate Change and Peak Oil [Excerpt]: Scientific American

DID OIL PRICES TRIGGER THE GREAT RECESSION?

Disentangling the channels of the 2007-2009 recession

THE LIMITS OF EXPERIENCE

Does Experience Make you an Expert?

WHY GASOLINE PRICES VARY

Econbrowser: Why do gasoline prices differ across U.S. states?

DOES PROFILING WORK?

Dangerous Minds

PUZZLES, MYSTERIES, AND ENRON

Open Secrets

POPULATION, COMPANIES AND PENSIONS

The Risk Pool

THE OUTSIDER ADVANTAGE

The Uses of Adversity

GIVING REASONS

Here's Why

DO PORTS BELONG IN CITIES

Salon.com » On the waterfront, the battle rages on Mobile

THE DEATH OF ONLINE POKER

Online Poker Kings Get Cashed Out

WHITE BREAD WAS ONCE PREFERRED

The rise and fall of white bread - Salon.com

THE AGING OF THE US PRISON POPULATION

Life, With Dementia

DO WE NEED AN FDA FOR FINANCIAL PRODUCTS?

The Case for Treating Big Finance Like Big Pharma

WHAT MAKES A GENIUS?

gladwell dot com - the physical genius

POPULATION GROWTH AND MIGRATION PATTERNS IN US STATES

Is The United States Population Heading to Long-term Deceleration?

WHAT'S BEHIND THE SUCCESS OF SOUTHWEST AIRLINE?

Luv and War at 30,000 Feet

GEORGE W. BUSH, READER

Dubya and Me

ALL ABOUT DEBT

Rethinking Debt

SCALING EDUCATION

Alex Peake's "Code Hero": How To Scale Education The Right Way

ARE MIDDLE MANAGERS REALLY THAT IMPORTANT?

Why Middle Managers May Be the Most Important People in Your Company

DO WE WORK TOO MUCH?

Quitting the Paint Factory by Mark Slouka

TROUBLE AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

Upheaval at the New York Public Library | The Nation

THE RIPPLE EFFECT OF LOSING MANUFACTURING JOBS

The High Price of Losing Manufacturing Jobs

THE END OF CHEAP COFFEE

GOOD Mobile

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND TAX CUTS

Behavioral Economics Foils an Obama Tax Cut? - Businessweek

MODELS AND INVESTMENT

Elementary Worldly Wisdom

WHO CHEATS IN AN HONOR SYSTEM?

What The Bagel Man Saw

TOUGH TIMES FOR THE LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED

The Left-Behinds

WILL RHODE ISLAND GO BANKRUPT?

The Little State With a Big Mess

THE COST OF COLLEGE AND THE STUDENT LOAN BUBBLE

Bad Education

PUBLIC TRANSIT AND COMMUTING LIMITATIONS

Transit: The 4 Percent Solution

OUT MIGRATION AND NEW YORK

Goodbye, New York State Residents are Rushing for the Exits

WHY ARE GASOLINE PRICES UP?

Here's The REAL Reason Gasoline Prices Have Been Surging In The US

HOW MEMORY REALLY WORKS

The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever | Wired Magazine | Wired.com

EMOTIONS AND THE BRAIN

Salon.com » The scientific argument for being emotional Mobile

RATIONALITY AND RISK

The Irrational Risk of Thinking We Can Be Rational About Risk | Risk: Reason and Reality | Big Think

DISTRACTION AND CREATIVITY

The Art of Distraction - NYTimes.com

ARE PHYSICIAN GROUPS THE ANSWER TO HEALTH CARE COSTS?

How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care

COMPETING AGAINST COLLEGES

A Radical Solution For America’s Worsening College Tuition Bubble

HABITS, MARKETING, AND STATISTICS

How Companies Learn Your Secrets

WHAT KILLED SOLYNDRA?

Why the Clean Tech Boom Went Bust

DOES TEACHER MERIT PAY WORK?

As teacher merit pay spreads, one noted voice cries, ‘It doesn’t work’

WHO CREATES JOBS?

MILLIONAIRE'S ISLAND: A Simple Example Of Why 'Rich People' Don't Create Jo

THE PROBLEM WITH ABANDONED HOMES

Business & Technology | Empty, foreclosed houses burden cities, neighborhoods | Seattle Times Newspaper

BOOK: WILLPOWER

Amazon.com: Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength (9781594203077): Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney: Books

BOOK: ON APOLOGY

Amazon.com: On Apology (9780195189117): Aaron Lazare M.D.: Books

DOWNTOWNS VS. SUBURBS IN FLORIDA

Why Downtowns Fail and How They Can Come Back

LIFE FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED IN WASHINGTON DC

Washingtonpost.com : Invisible Lives

THE REALITY OF FOR PROFIT COLLEGES

Leveling the field:

HINDSIGHT AND THE GREAT RECESSION

Could this time have been different?

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION FROM CHINA

The Snakehead

MARKETING CARROTS

How Carrots Became The New Junk Food

ON BEING WEALTHY

The Embarrassment of Riches

TERRORISM AND AIR TRAVEL

Terrorist Threats to Commercial Aviation: A Contemporary Assessment

LOW INCOME MOTEL HOUSING

For families without options, that cheap motel may be their last resort

SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING FOR TEENS IN LA GONE WRONG

Straight Time

LIFE IN THE LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY

Dispatch From Angola: Faith-Based Slavery in a Louisiana Prison

TRAILER LIFE IN THE 1950'S

“LIVING IN A TRAILER” by James Jones – July 1952

WILL GLOBAL WARMING BE THE END OF AUSTRALIA?

Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: Climate Change and the End of Australia

THE USES OF EUPHEMISM

Making murder respectable

NUCLEAR TERRORISM

How to Get a Nuclear Bomb

BICYCLE THEFT

Stolen Bikes – How to Catch a Bike Thief : Biking : OutsideOnline.com

THE ECONOMICS OF PARKING

Between the Lines

THIS TECH BUBBLE IS DIFFERENT

This Tech Bubble Is Different

EMOTIONS AND MOTIVATION

The Architecture Of Motivation Edge master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge

INTUITIVE THINKING II

The Marvels And The Flaws Of Intuitive Thinking Edge Master Class 2011 | Conversation | Edge

INTUITIVE THINKING

Insight | Conversation | Edge

AVOIDING BLACK SWANS II

The Hard Problem | Conversation | Edge

LEARNING TO EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

Learning To Expect The Unexpected | Conversation | Edge

MONEY AND THE NEW HOUSEHOLD

Meghan Daum - My Misspent Youth

PREDICATION AND LOW PROBABILITY EVENTS

When We Cannot Predict | Conversation | Edge

APPLE VS GOOGLE VS FACEBOOK VS AMAZON

The Great Tech War Of 2012 | Fast Company

PROBABILITY IN REAL LIFE

Real Life Is Not A Casino | Conversation | Edge

STATISTICS, RISK, AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

The Fourth Quadrant A Map Of The Limits Of Statistics | Conversation | Edge

What Happens When College Is Free? Part 1

The Promise: Two wealthy men set out to transform the lives of 59 poor children - The Washington Post

What Happens When College Is Free? Part 2

The Reality: Daunting difficulties for the children promised college scholarships - The Washington Post part 2

What Happens When College Is Free? Part 3

The Legacy: For those promised college scholarships, the gift inspired pride and pain - The Washington Post part 3

THE DUBIOUS VALUE OF AIRPORT SECURITY

Smoke Screening |

THE PROBLEM WITH STORIES

[Transcript] Tyler Cowen on Stories - Less Wrong Discussion

TOP US JOB GROWTH CITIES

The Best Cities for Jobs 2011 | Newgeography.com

This Tech Bubble Is Different

This Tech Bubble Is Different - BusinessWeek

THE ECONOMICS OF LOW END RETAIL

The Dollar Store Economy - NYTimes.com

Book: Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To

Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To Sian Beilock

Book: Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics

Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics Nicholas Wapshott

Book: Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly

Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly John Kay

Book: Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure Tim Harford

North Dakota Is Booming

HELP WANTED: The North Dakota Boom | Newgeography.com

Why the Number of Single Women is Rising

All the Single Ladies - Atlantic Mobile

Asian Education Success = Career Success?

Paper Tigers

Goldman Sachs and the Aluminum Market

Goldman's new money machine: warehouses

Low Demand = Long Unemployment Duration

Why Is Unemployment Duration So Long? (201 : 3, 1/30/2012)

Communities in Decline and the Long Term Unemployed

NationalJournal.com - The Left-Behinds - Monday, November 21, 2011

Chain Store Locations

Why Do Some Neighborhoods Get Overrun With Chain Stores, While Others Don't? - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities

THE NEXT US BOOM TOWNS

The Next Boom Towns In The U.S. | Newgeography.com

The Decline in Household Formation

The mystery of slow family household formation

The Black Market Economy

The Shadow Superpower - By Robert Neuwirth | Foreign Policy

Elizabeth Warren and Financial Regulation

The Woman Who Knew Too Much

Leadership

The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz

Ireland and the Financial Crisis

When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair

Privatization of the Mail

James Meek · In the Sorting Office · LRB 28 April 2011