The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Divorce, like death, is one of those things that deep down everyone assumes will only happen to other people. People believe this despite ...

One of the advantages of the economist's training is just the ability to instinctively think in terms of empirical tests. There's a ...

One of my minor hobbies is noticing small correlations in how people speak that reveal things about them. Some examples  here ,  here  and  ...

Those of us who enjoy collecting correlations as a hobby sometimes yearn for a higher stakes version of our craft, something like the Correl...

Steve Sailer links to this fantastic New Yorker comic: Ouch! Please report to the burn unit of the hopsital! This hits so many outrage...

Without drinking it, obviously. This is continuing in the 'news you can use' category, among the trivialities that have been occup...

Apparently they're making a movie called '42' . Knowing only this much about the movie, it's a useful way to segment peopl...

Not forced segregation, mind you. Like so many reactionary ideas (some of which were good, some of which, like this one, were not) it's ...

I always enjoy when someone's choice of words reveal things about them that they almost certainly didn't intend to convey. A great...

One of my minor hobbies is trying to guess where people were born based on small details about them. A fun way of doing this is with langu...

-Since it has been established by rigorous analysis that McDonalds restaurants tend to be the most profitable places at airports, it seems ...

I was listening to a talk by this Greek girl today. I was speaking to The Greek afterwards, and asked him the following: "Hey, does t...