Blog Posts (5)
April 25, 2013
Recently Mayor Michael Bloomberg learned that his Big Gulp ban had been blocked by a state Supreme Court judge for arbitrarily targeting these consumer goods without a legal rationale. Determined to combat the obesity epidemic, Bloomberg will no dou...
March 20, 2013
A dozen years ago, my wife filled out an NCAA bracket on a popular website. Out of more than 1 million entries, she finished somewhere around 17th.
Think about it: 17th out of a million. Clearly I married up! I mean everyone says their spouse is ...
March 1, 2013
One of the dangers of studying behavioral economics and psychology is that the ideas follow you around pretty much everywhere you go. I was reminded of that when some of my students came back from a mid-class bathroom break to tell me they thought th...
February 20, 2013
Notice anything unusual about this CT scan?
On the upper right side is an image of a gorilla. According to a new study, 83% of radiologists missed this image.
They had been looking through a series of scans, looking for “pulmonary nodules”—growt...
February 1, 2013
In last Sunday’s New York Times, Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote a powerful op-ed about the environmental impact of airplane travel. She made many cogent arguments, ones that very much struck home with me. But in making her point, she played with mathema...
