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How Important Is Inequality?

The authors attribute the growth of household inequality to 3 interacting forces. The first is rising returns to education. Earnings across educational classes have become more polarized. The second factor is increased positive assortative mating. People with similar socioeconomic backgrounds tend increasingly to marry each other, exacerbating income inequality. Third, the increase in married female labor force participation has heightened inequality

Clueless media

Heartbleed. The term comes from the communication between 2 so-called “hearts” on a server which verify your security as you shop, check e-mails and bank statements. There is now a backdoor break-in between those hearts, and it’s bleeding.

sure, sure. remember that “journalism” knows as much about politics as it does about tech. assume all articles are fundamentally as inane as this one.

Think Like a Freak

In one of the many wonderful moments in Think Like a Freak, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner ask the question: Who is easier to fool—kids or adults? The obvious answer, of course, is kids. The cliché is about taking candy from a baby, not a grown man. But instead of accepting conventional wisdom as fact, the 2 sit down with the magician Alex Stone—someone in the business of fooling people—and ask him what he thinks. And his answer? Adults.