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iPhone Altruism for Potential Organ Donors

Organ donation is one of the most altruistic things a person can do. And yet, Chapter 3 of SuperFreakonomics spells out, relying on altruism for organ donations has proved to be largely unsuccessful. There are a lot of reasons people give for not signing up as organ donors. ...

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A SuperFreakonomics Quiz: Name This University of Chicago Alum

I ran into someone the other day whom I had never met and who fit the following five criteria: 1. He/she attended the University of Chicago. 2. He/she is still alive. 3. He/she is a whole lot smarter than I am. 4. He/she is a whole lot more famous than I am. 5. He/she is even more controve...

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Adderall Speculation

Students apparently consume mass quantities of the performance-enhancing drug Adderall during exam time. Normally the price is $3 for 10 mg., but it rises during exam week to at least $5. One student reports that in his suburban Dallas hometown drug dealers, realizing this price variation, spec...

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Looking to Blog Readers for Good Ideas to Reduce Teen Shootings

In the wake of the national publicity that accompanied the beating death of Chicago Public Schools student Derrion Albert, the issue of teen violence has come to the fore. Violence toward students in the Chicago Public Schools is, however, neither new nor rare. ...

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A Very Renewable Energy Source

Faced with a plague of rabbits, some wild and some abandoned pets, the city of Stockholm is pursuing a unique pest-control strategy. The city is hunting, deep-freezing, and shipping the rabbits to a heating plant in central Sweden where they're processed for fuel. Three thousand rabbits have been...

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