Economics
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When Southwest Airlines and Stevens Aviation both wanted the same slogan in 1992, there was only one way to settle the matter: a CEO vs. CEO arm wrestling match.
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Priceonomics wrote a book! We hope you enjoy it.
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There's more to those skimpy, mass-produced, high markup rayon costumes than meets the eye.
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In 1950, the U.S. government secretly covered U.S. cities with bacteria in the name of scientific research. For thirty years, the tests remained a secret -- even after a San Francisco resident died as a result.
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Terence Faulkner wrote 1/3 of the opposing arguments in this year's SF voter guide. And large chunks of them read like he's yelling at you.
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The Preparedness Day Bombing of 1916 killed 10 and seriously wounded 40 -- but the injustice that followed was almost as grave.
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The story of how Porsche tried and failed miserably at its hostile takeover of Volkswagen.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are like a SaaS company that requires its customers to recruit or they get their subscription canceled. But if the end of the world actually happens, it will probably disrupt our models.
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The chirping noises made by crickets attract suitors -- but they can also be used by humans to easily (and accurately) calculate the temperature.
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No matter how you slice it, the U.S. population is still mostly Christian, and mostly Protestant. But a certain sector of the religious landscape has been on the rise for decades: the atheists, humanists, and otherwise unaffiliated.
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On a ledge high above the San Francisco Bay, Kevin Berthia prepared to jump to his death. Then he heard a voice.
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Mechanical Turk lets you pay people small amounts to complete "microtasks". Now, academics are using it to make their research faster, cheaper and -- arguably -- more accurate.
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In the 1950s, raccoon hats were "bigger than anything, ever, including The Beatles and Elvis." How'd they get from the heads of early settlers to the closets of millions of American kids?
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A study shows why expensive weddings aren't all they're cracked up to be -- spend too much and you might just ruin your marriage!
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In 1872, one misplaced comma cost the US government -- and American taxpayers -- $2 million (nearly $38 million today). The story is frustrating.
