This is beaked because the "explosive" follow-up to Freakonomics," and is subtitled: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance.
Apparently the world can't get enough of this team who keep questioning our assumptions about how the world works, and how we should be evaluating the statistics the media bombards us with.
They open with something that's not intuitively transparent -- according to the statistics (and if you accept their assumption that people walk as much drunk as they drive), it's far safer for the drunk soul to drive drunk than to walk drunk.
It's far safer for other drivers for drunks to walk, but for the drunk, it's safer to drive -- so they don't lie midmost of Wall Street and pass out, fall before of a car, cross a street without looking, or the other dangerous things drunk pedestrians do. They didn't even admit the real possibility (in some neighborhoods) of being robbed.
It ends with descriptions of how a research man of science taught monkeys to value coins -- they even discovered prostitution.
Along the way, they take a close look at the economic science of (human) prostitute, comparison what it was many years ago to today.
Even more possibly contentious is the chapter on global warming, which highlights a company headed by a former Microsoft employee who is leading other geniuses to find cost-effective ways to make money by resolution the world's problems.
These man of sciences seem to generally believe the world is step by step warming, but are well-aware that the current models are not sophisticated enough, putt them outside the rabid environmental camp.
The authors touch on how the current environmental movement seems much like a religion that is attempting to limit element acid gas not even as a method to reduce global warming, but to deliberately destroy civilization as we know of. They touch to this, and seem aware of the threat, but don't go deeply into the motivations of the fanatic environmentalists or explore what are their true goals.
Rather they take "lowering international warming" as the goal, and so let the man of sciences discuss how it could be accomplished at little cost.
As soul who doesn't pretend to be a climate man of science, I'm an agnostic on global warming.
But as soul who sees the projected "options" for the alleged risk of worldwide warming as a risk to humanity's exemption and commercial enterprise growth, I want they'd gone extra in exposing the unconventional environmentalists who're utilizing local weather change as a way, not an finish.
They even re-open the ill-famed Kitty Genovese case, although apparently haven't learn Robert Cialdini's rationalization that the neighbors who did witness the assault or her homicide believed other soul had famous as the police. They found that soul did name the police, who apparently have been sluggish to react, since no one knew how critically she was wounded.
I soulally get pleasure from this type of utilizing details to expose myths. Lord is aware of we'd like much more details and context and quite bit few media lies and distortions.
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