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Bad News for People With Hard-to-Pronounce Names
(Photo: Fady Aziz) If you have one of those names that people are always struggling to pronounce, we have some bad news for you. A new paper (ungated version here) by Simon M. Laham, Peter Koval, and...
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View ArticleFREAK-TV: Name Your Kid Fido If You Want
Video The latest FREAK-TV video features Levitt discussing the ever-interesting topic of naming your kid. We have had many people write to us since the book came out to say they chose their baby’s...
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The key to good health? Eat more garbage. Technology meets baby naming. (HT: BoingBoing) New report says global warming kills more Europeans than car accidents. (Earlier) Which ten businesses will be...
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New York’s most popular baby names in 2006. (Earlier) The science of four-letter words. Can immigration levels affect gas prices? College pharmacies jack up birth control prices, fewer women fill...
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Indexed: Baby-Name Edition
Here’s the latest from Jessica Hagy, the creator of Indexed and our regular guest blogger: The post Indexed: Baby-Name Edition appeared first on Freakonomics.
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Divorce is bad for the environment. Survey shows that doctors fail to report each others’ errors. (Earlier) A complete compilation of science fiction baby names. (Earlier) Researchers study zebra...
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Professor invents book-writing machine. Are toddlers masters of data-mining? (Earlier) Study finds teenage fathers at greater risk of producing unhealthy babies. “Britney” plummets from list of most...
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View ArticleWhat's in a Name? Four Thousand and Fifty Dollars
It may be a gag, but from the looks of this eBay page, someone just sold the naming rights for her unborn baby — and two pairs of Nike Air baby booties — for $4,050. She doesn’t care what name the...
View ArticleThe World Wide Web Keeps it Local
Rather than create a “global village,” the Internet may have actually “shrunk people’s horizons,” reports an Economist article about a new study by Hebrew University researchers Jacob Goldenberg and...
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