Economics
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In the 1990s, Yahoo was a really big deal. What can we learn from that?
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A search engine that doesn't track your private data has been creating a lot of buzz lately.
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Economists show us how we undervalue options when risk is involved.
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An academic study dives into how much it costs to hire a hitman.
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You're more likely to birth twins than to click on a banner ad. Unless you're a guy.
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Where biking to work is fairly common, bike accidents are quite low.
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Academics can't decide if hot streaks and slumps are real or a superstition like wearing lucky socks on game day.
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Many are leaving other California counties to live in the City by the Bay.
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Chances are that some of your favorite tracks contain barely-recognizable bits and pieces of other songs.
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Bitcoin could be the future of money. But its pitfalls and perils resemble an old money transfer system called hawala.
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Is San Francisco's Dolores Park a paradigm of free-market capitalism?
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Why have economic concepts and psychology studies escaped from niche conferences and the pages of overpriced textbooks into popular nonfiction and media?
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Einstein once quipped that "a person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of thirty will never do so." Is this true?
