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Numbers like that demand a sequel, and this month Levitt and Dubner delivered theirs: SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. But while their first book focused mostly on smaller stuff, SuperFreakonomics takes on one very big subject - global warming - and it has got environmentalists and climate scientists across the blogosphere feeling dismayed by the Freaky Ones. (See the top 10 green ideas...
Levitt and Dubner included in their book input from Ken Caldeira, an ecologist at Stanford University who has made no secret of his research into the possible effectiveness of geoengineering schemes - even as many of his colleagues have shied away from the subject, partly out of concern that it would wrongly convince people that there is a cheaper way to counter global warming. Since SuperFreakonomics was published, however, Caldeira has claimed that Levitt and Dubner mischaracterized his views. He says he's in favor of researching geoengineering in order to gauge its effectiveness and its potential side effects...
Levitt describes his favored subject matter as "questions that are too embarrassing and degrading for other economists to find interesting." The pioneer at using economic methods to explore subjects not normally seen as economic was Levitt's Chicago mentor, Gary Becker, who won a Nobel in 1992 for his work on marriage, crime and other topics. A few years ago, another economist applauded this work as "economic imperialism" because it invaded realms dominated by sociologists and political scientists...
When asked about how he took on his persona of a (fake) expert in every subject, Hodgman referred to his experience as a literary agent in New York City...
Rushdie was famously the subject of a fatwa requiring his execution issued by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Recently, he has argued for greater rights for Islamic women. In 2006, when British Leader of the House of Commons Jack Straw criticized the wearing of the niqab, a veil that covers all of the face except the eyes, Rushdie supported him, saying his three sisters would never wear the veil, and adding: “I think the battle against the veil has been a long and continuing battle against the limitation of women, so in that...