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...Danish statistician, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist (2001) and one of the TIME 100 Scientists & Thinkers of 2004, Bjorn Lomborg, 42, sat down with TIME's Laura Blue in London to discuss carbon cuts, his many critics, and his new book, Cool It: the Skeptical Environmentalist's guide to Global Warming, published in the U.S. in September...
...things like recreation and education, not daily sustenance. This relationship between food and income--as you get rich, you spend proportionately less to eat--has held so strongly over so many generations that economists have given it a name: Engel's law (for Ernst Engel, a 19th century statistician). The foodie revolution that began in the '70s--arugula over iceberg, short ribs over brisket, etc.--has challenged Engel's law among élites who will pay, say, $80 for a single pound of Nantucket Wild Gourmet cold-smoked salmon. But finding impossibly tender lox is a recreational, not nutritional, pastime...
...After Morgan was denied tenure in 2004, the duo headed west, where Morgan became an associate professor of communication, which at Stanford is a tenured position. Matory cited Bobo’s return as another reason for his elation. “He’s probably the leading statistician of race relations and we couldn’t be Harvard without him,” Matory said. Since his departure, Bobo, who was previously the Tishman and Diker professor of sociology and Af-Am studies at Harvard, has had an outstanding offer to resume a tenured position...
...Europe Tightens Its Belt Your story [Feb. 26] noted that statistician Enrico Giovannini is upset that people question official European inflation statistics; he claims that people have some "terrible problems of perception." Is it possible he has lost touch with reality? He is welcome to stay in my house for a month and do some accounting. Products such as cars, refrigerators and new television sets are out of our reach - we are only hoping that our old ones will last 10 more years. We go to a restaurant once in three months, and this year we have decided...
...Your story noted that statistician Enrico Giovannini is upset that people question official European inflation statistics; he claims that people have some "terrible problems of perception." Is it possible he has lost touch with reality? He is welcome to stay in my house for a month and do some accounting. Products such as cars, refrigerators and new television sets are out of our reach-we are only hoping that our old ones will last 10 more years. We go to a restaurant once in three months, and this year we have decided to do without a summer holiday in nearby...