18 days ago by Neil Greenspan

As noted in my last post, the selective advantage of heterozygosity for the sickle allele at the beta-globin locus has been known since Allison’s report in 1954 (Lancet). Nevertheless, a plausible and detailed mechanism to account for the protective effect of an allele that is typically highly delet ...

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38 days ago by BrainiYak

Where our animal impulses are concerned, common sense just can’t win Most thoughtful people would agree that American national security would benefit from less profligate fuel consumption. Yet, our auto-buying natures seem to be too impulsive to put that sensible idea into action. Massachusetts Inst ...

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51 days ago by CCz

Mais um interessante artigo de Steve Denning " Why A Firm Has Only One Bottom Line". . Este com a particularidade de usar uma terminologia semelhante há que uso quando abordo a temática do balanced scorecard: . "what about the employees? Aren’t they important? . What about profits? Aren’t they impor ...

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95 days ago by Stephen J. Dubner

The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a Football Freakonomics project. Economics is all about tradeoffs. If you want to buy a top-tier performance car, it’ll cost you a lot more than a Camry. If you’re looking for an investment that’ll set you up for life, you hav ...

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105 days ago by Dan Sude

Tetlock, P. E. (2000). Coping with trade-offs: Psychological constraints and political implications. In A. Lupia, M. D. McCubbins, & S. Popkin (Eds.), Elements of reason: Cognition, choice, and the bounds of rationality (pp. 239–263). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. Retrieved from Phillip ...

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111 days ago by CCz

"The irony is this: the best strategies are actually those that require sacrifice. ( Moi ici: Sem trade-offs qualquer um pode copiar, sem trade-offs não há escassez nem diferenciação) These strategies tell you what not to do. ( Moi ici: Não esquecer o exemplo da Apple, não esquecer que os fariseus a ...

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113 days ago by Michael

There's a lot of fun things going on with the Transportation Security Authority - "fun" being a synonym for a farcical horrors - from yet another case of TSA agents going mad with their moderate amount of power to a satirical Playmobil Security Check Point playset posted on Amazon.com All of this ha ...

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116 days ago by Justin

You can definitely think the income tax rate(s) is too high (or too low), but that doesn't mean anything until you explain how the things you're getting as a trade-off for your tax aren't worth the cost of the tax.

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119 days ago by kimmuel

Dear Old Self, I am making this letter for you a sign of how happy and fulfilled I feel today. I just woke up from a good sleep in our king size bed with my beautiful wife. She’s still sleeping tough, tired with the stuff we’ve been doing in the past weeks.Oh I love seeing her soundly asleep, so inn ...

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123 days ago by Shannon Kelley

Last week during all the memorializing of Apple founder/college dropout/cultural visionary Steve Jobs, I found myself watching the commencement speech he gave at Stanford University in 2005 — and, in all that wisdom, one line in particular gave me the chills: Don’t Live Someone Else’s Life, he said. ...

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