
SuperFreakonomics

There is just one arrest for every 27,000 miles driven while drunk.
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60 percent of Indian men have penises too small for the condoms manufactured to fit
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The world’s ruminants are responsible for about 50 percent more greenhouse gas than the entire transportation sector.
Stephen J. Dubner • SuperFreakonomics
But in the cash-incentive version, the men blew away the women.
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After the September 11 terrorist attacks, all commercial flights in the United States were grounded for three days. Using data from more than four thousand weather stations across the country, scientists found that the sudden absence of contrails accounted for a subsequent rise in ground temperature of nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1.1 degrees
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the data convincingly show that the net result was fewer jobs for Americans with disabilities.
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Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, a long-recurring climate cycle of sixty to eighty years during which the Atlantic Ocean
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carbon dioxide level some 80 million years ago—back when our mammalian ancestors were evolving—was at least 1,000 parts per million. In
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In fact, they might have been better off if they simply stayed at home. Consider the evidence from a series of widespread doctor strikes in Los Angeles, Israel, and Colombia. It turns out that the death rate dropped significantly in those places, anywhere from 18 percent to 50 percent, when the doctors stopped working!