In an NYT article about drastic changes in application rates to various colleges, Ivy League type colleges as well as elite state schools a...

Read about it in a brief post I just put up at GNXP.com. The interesting thing is that in delaying gratification, and so increasing our fut...

* For the lactose-intolerant who want cheese -- because it provides fat and seems to turbo-charge your libido -- I've found two brands ...

There's some talk at Roissy's about whether 10 girls exist in real life, or whether they're all snapped up as models, actresses...

Bloomberg.com has an interesting look at how former real estate parasites are adapting to the changing housing market environment, in order ...

In Irrational Exuberance , Robert Shiller reviews many possible reasons why people may have been so enthusiastic about the stock market in ...

The NYT reports that candy sales are way up since the recession started. No sales data are given, only anecdotes -- but what the hell, it...

Google Trends is neat because unlike searching the NYT, JSTOR, or looking up yearly data, you can detect pretty fine-grained changes over ti...

The New York Times says that sugar is making a comeback against high-fructose corn syrup. Because the two are nearly identical, this is obv...