Triple-Decker Weekly, 133
...the basic assumption is that people have freezers at home in which to store the ice cream. Even when ice cream is sold on-the-go, it is sold out as scoops...
Wizards of Like
...premise that makes News Feed work as it is supposed to, as an ad conduit. The algorithm is there to make the News Feed into commercial broadcast television and to...
The Secret Shopper
...sure every chain store in the country is more or less the same follows a fairly simple process: Mystery shoppers sign up for each job separately through a mystery-shopping company...
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
...was to my Falcons playbook.” The comparison between the study of dogs and the study of the Falcons playbook—the fluidity between them, the way they compete for the same mental...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 93
...news is if people’s time preferences switched depending on framing effects! If that happened, then it would be very, very hard to model individual decision-making over time. Unfortunately, that is...
Reading the U.S. Torture Footnotes
...body still suffers from the effects of that long imprisonment, to say nothing of my soul. Jacobs returns to me, gives me a way in. * The much-redacted executive summary...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 33
...But what makes them attractive? Studies have confounded the more enduring qualities that impact attractiveness (i.e., unadorned attractiveness) and the effects of easily manipulated qualities such as clothing (i.e., effective...
An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang
...and Nasdaq have requested U.S. regulators allow them to change their rules to allow companies to sell new stock in a direct listing. [Reuters] This study shows evidence of a...
“Spaces where identity stutters and goes silent”
...happening–the lost (and never-packed) clothes reappearing for sale on the streets, the people insisting they recognized Ladivine Rivière, that whole murder-that-wasn’t-really-a-murder. Everything just seemed to be on pause. Like a...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 134
...from higher up. […] With domestic dogs looking at a human, typically they already know the sound is coming from the human; they seem to just instinctively add the head...
Radiation, Pandemic, Insurrection
...for two years. The multi-dimensionality of its effects revealed how deeply the nuclear apparatuses had been enmeshed in a society resting on an earthquake-prone archipelago. Amid a crisis on all...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 43
...patients were told they’d be taking fake, inert drugs (delivered in bottles labeled “placebo pills”) and told also that placebos often have healing effects. The study’s results shocked the investigators...
Triple-Decker Weekly
...further examine this area, analyzing the combined contribution of verbal and nonverbal leakage to the prediction of deception or truthfulness. [FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin] The first Target store opened in...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 136
...to under-price tickets to ensure that stadia are full. […] Thirdly, higher ticket prices can have adverse compositional effects: they might price out younger and poorer fans but replace them...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 22
...complex or bizarre. Sometimes they can “blend in” to our everyday lives a bit more. One case study was recently published in the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology described a patient...
The Paper Chase
...with Warren’s belief in the labor theory of value. Also built into the Cincinnati Time Store was the idea of community support through currency—those who shopped there were not only...