Why Do the World's Fattest People Live on Islands? by Joshua E. Keating

Why Do the World's Fattest People Live on Islands? by Joshua E. Keating

Follow my leader: A group’s “intelligence” depends in part on its members’ ignorance from The Economist

Follow my leader: A group’s “intelligence” depends in part on its members’ ignorance from The Economist

How the diabetes-linked 'thrifty gene' triumphed with prejudice over proof by Carolyn Abraham

How the diabetes-linked 'thrifty gene' triumphed with prejudice over proof by Carolyn Abraham

Cats Adore, Manipulate Women by Jennifer Viegas

Cats Adore, Manipulate Women by Jennifer Viegas

As Regimes Fall in Arab World, Al Qaeda Sees History Fly by Scott Shane

As Regimes Fall in Arab World, Al Qaeda Sees History Fly by Scott Shane

Un-American Revolutions by Niall Ferguson

Un-American Revolutions by Niall Ferguson

Billions to Spend: How a $5.7 billion program to rebuild L.A. community colleges went astray by Gale Holland and Michael Finnegan

Billions to Spend: How a $5.7 billion program to rebuild L.A. community colleges went astray by Gale Holland and Michael Finnegan

A history of murder: personal violence in Europe from the Middle Ages by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg

A history of murder: personal violence in Europe from the Middle Ages by Petrus Cornelis Spierenburg

Modernization, Self-Control and Lethal Violence. The Long-Term Dynamics of European Homicide Rates in Theoretical Perspective by Manuel Eisner

Modernization, Self-Control and Lethal Violence. The Long-Term Dynamics of European Homicide Rates in Theoretical Perspective by Manuel Eisner

Has the Rise in American Inequality Been Exaggerated? by Robert J. Gordon

Has the Rise in American Inequality Been Exaggerated? by Robert J. Gordon

The Truth About Income Inequality by Diana Furchtgott-Roth

The Truth About Income Inequality by Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality by Robert J. Gordon

Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality by Robert J. Gordon

How the world's most improved school systems keep getting better by Mona Mourshed, Chinezi Chijioke, and Michael Barber from McKinsey

How the world's most improved school systems keep getting better by Mona Mourshed, Chinezi Chijioke, and Michael Barber from McKinsey

Swedes Begin to Question Liberal Migration Tenets by Suzanne Daley

Swedes Begin to Question Liberal Migration Tenets by Suzanne Daley

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part I by Brian Taylor

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part I by Thomas H. Benton

Public employee unions: Entitled to their own views, but not their own facts by Jennifer Rubin

Public employee unions: Entitled to their own views, but not their own facts by Jennifer Rubin

The Discovery of the Future by H.G. Wells

The Discovery of the Future by H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells Complete Works

H.G. Wells Complete Works

A Founding Father’s Books Turn Up by Sam Roberts

A Founding Father’s Books Turn Up by Sam Roberts

Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career by Stacy Dale and Alan B. Krueger

Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career by Stacy Dale and Alan B. Krueger

Unfair Competition With The Sun by Frederic Bastiat

Unfair Competition With The Sun by Frederic Bastiat

The White Rose: An Anniversary of Three Executions by J. Christian Adams

The White Rose: An Anniversary of Three Executions by J. Christian Adams

Public-Sector Unions by Chris Edwards

Public-Sector Unions by Chris Edwards

The Wisdom of the Stoics by Frances and Henry Hazlitt

The Wisdom of the Stoics by Frances and Henry Hazlitt

The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt

The Foundations of Morality by Henry Hazlitt

The Freeman's Library by Henry Hazlitt

The Freeman's Library by Henry Hazlitt

The Way to Will-Power by Henry Hazlitt

The Way to Will-Power by Henry Hazlitt

Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

Foundation for Economic Education website

Foundation for Economic Education website

Commonsense Economics website

Commonsense Economics website

I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read

I, Pencil by Leonard E. Read

In the Land of the Brother Leader by Michael J. Totten

In the Land of the Brother Leader by Michael J. Totten

Lords of the Realm by Christopher M. Davidson

Lords of the Realm by Christopher M. Davidson

The REAL Death Of The Music Industry by Michael DeGusta

The REAL Death Of The Music Industry by Michael DeGusta

This is Why I'll Never be an Adult from Hyperbole and a Half

This is Why I'll Never be an Adult from Hyperbole and a Half

The Education Bubble Is Fuel for Revolt by Joshua Fulton

The Education Bubble Is Fuel for Revolt by Joshua Fulton

To Escape Blame, Be a Victim, Not a Hero, New Study Finds from Science Daily

To Escape Blame, Be a Victim, Not a Hero, New Study Finds from Science Daily

Ethnic Differences Emerge in Plastic Surgery by Sam Dolnick

Ethnic Differences Emerge in Plastic Surgery by Sam Dolnick

Can Health-Care Waivers Be Justified? by Philip Hamburger

Can Health-Care Waivers Be Justified? by Philip Hamburger

Busting the 8-Hour Sleep Myth: Why You Should Wake Up in the Night by Natalie Wolchover

Busting the 8-Hour Sleep Myth: Why You Should Wake Up in the Night by Natalie Wolchover

Galileo and the Scientific Pose of the Left by Robert Tracinski

Galileo and the Scientific Pose of the Left by Robert Tracinski

College Results Online website

College Results Online website

Happy Valentine's Day! Try Out This Marital Rating Scale by Alexis Madrigal

Happy Valentine's Day! Try Out This Marital Rating Scale by Alexis Madrigal

Recent Trends of Mortality from Violence by W. J. Martin

Recent Trends of Mortality from Violence by W. J. Martin

Pericles' Funeral Oration

Pericles' Funeral Oration

Is Fear The Father Of Us All? by Walter Russell Mead

Is Fear The Father Of Us All? by Walter Russell Mead

Hayek’s Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts in a Recession by David Azerrad

Hayek’s Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts in a Recession by David Azerrad

The Experience Economy by David Brooks

The Experience Economy by David Brooks

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

What Does Bias Look Like? by Megan McArdle

What Does Bias Look Like? by Megan McArdle

People Believe What Resonates With Their Beliefs: An Interesting Experiment by Orin Kerr

People Believe What Resonates With Their Beliefs: An Interesting Experiment by Orin Kerr

Porn and Violence: Good for America's Children? by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Porn and Violence: Good for America's Children? by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Playing the Rape Card: ‘Media Psychiatrist’ Ratchets Up Anti-Videogame Rhetoric by Jason Schreier

Playing the Rape Card: ‘Media Psychiatrist’ Ratchets Up Anti-Videogame Rhetoric by Jason Schreier

Our new Jeffersonian era by Salena Zito

Our new Jeffersonian era by Salena Zito

Pull the other one, Pullman by Colby Cosh

Pull the other one, Pullman by Colby Cosh

Witness by Greyhawk

Witness by Greyhawk

Stick a fork in it, we're done: Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Green the Capitol initiative is over at the House's Longworth cafeteria by Charlotte All

Stick a fork in it, we're done: Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Green the Capitol initiative is over at the House's Longworth cafeteria by Charlotte Allen

Top 1pc of workers pay quarter of all income tax by Harry Wallop

Top 1pc of workers pay quarter of all income tax by Harry Wallop

How Data Mining Can Help You Score on the First Date by Stewart Baker

How Data Mining Can Help You Score on the First Date by Stewart Baker

Lifestyle affects life expectancy more than genetics from e! Science News

Lifestyle affects life expectancy more than genetics from e! Science News

The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois by Abraham Lincoln

The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions: Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois by Abraham Lincoln

Consanguinity prevents Middle Eastern political development from FuturePundit

Consanguinity prevents Middle Eastern political development from FuturePundit

The Dirty Little Secrets of Search by David Segal

The Dirty Little Secrets of Search by David Segal

Homicide trends in the United States by James Alan Fox, and Marianne W. Zawitz

Homicide trends in the United States by James Alan Fox, and Marianne W. Zawitz

How to Think About the Tea Party by Paul A. Rahe

How to Think About the Tea Party by Paul A. Rahe

You and the Atomic Bomb by George Orwell

You and the Atomic Bomb by George Orwell

Life expectancy on British estate is lower than Haiti or Iraq from The Telegraph

Life expectancy on British estate is lower than Haiti or Iraq from The Telegraph

God Said Multiply, and Did She Ever by Joseph Berger

God Said Multiply, and Did She Ever by Joseph Berger

Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban by A.G. Sulzberger

Hospitals Shift Smoking Bans to Smoker Ban by A.G. Sulzberger

UA Experts Determine Age of Book 'Nobody Can Read' by Daniel Stolte

UA Experts Determine Age of Book 'Nobody Can Read' by Daniel Stolte

How Much Information Is There in the World? from ScienceDaily

How Much Information Is There in the World? from ScienceDaily

No ‘Moby-Dick’: A Real Captain, Twice Doomed by Jesse McKinley

No ‘Moby-Dick’: A Real Captain, Twice Doomed by Jesse McKinley

Gene Expression website

Gene Expression website

John Hawks weblog website

John Hawks weblog website

Forget Mandarin. Latin is the key to success by Toby Young

Forget Mandarin. Latin is the key to success by Toby Young

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813 from The Founder's Constitution

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 28 Oct. 1813 from The Founder's Constitution

Why Not Philanthropic Book Buying? from FuturePundit

Why Not Philanthropic Book Buying? from FuturePundit

Child Aggression Driven By Status Hierarchy Position from FuturePundit

Child Aggression Driven By Status Hierarchy Position from FuturePundit

Test Your Decision-Making Skills! by Timo Elliott

Test Your Decision-Making Skills! by Timo Elliott

Decision Making Quiz from Fortune Magazine

Decision Making Quiz from Fortune Magazine

The Order of Things by Malcolm Gladwell

The Order of Things by Malcolm Gladwell

The Audacious Epigone website

The Audacious Epigone website

Tolerance of free speech over time from the Audacious Epigone

Tolerance of free speech over time from the Audacious Epigone

Public Knows Basic Facts about Politics, Economics, But Struggles with Specifics from the Pew Research Center

Public Knows Basic Facts about Politics, Economics, But Struggles with Specifics from the Pew Research Center

Income relative to IQ, by occupation from The Aduacious Epigone

Income relative to IQ, by occupation from The Aduacious Epigone

Average IQ by occupation (estimated from wordsum scores) from The Audacious Epigone

Average IQ by occupation (estimated from wordsum scores) from The Audacious Epigone

Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education by Clayton M. Christensen et al

Disrupting College: How Disruptive Innovation Can Deliver Quality and Affordability to Postsecondary Education by Clayton M. Christensen et al

Disruption, Delivery and Degrees by Doug Lederman

Disruption, Delivery and Degrees by Doug Lederman

A Literary Glass Ceiling? Why magazines aren't reviewing more female writers by Ruth Franklin

A Literary Glass Ceiling? Why magazines aren't reviewing more female writers by Ruth Franklin

The Count 2010 by VIDA

The Count 2010 by VIDA

Life's Little Mysteries website

Life's Little Mysteries website

Mathematics' Nearly Century-Old Partitions Enigma Spawns Fractals Solution: Newly discovered counting patterns explain and elaborate cryptic claims ma

Mathematics' Nearly Century-Old Partitions Enigma Spawns Fractals Solution: Newly discovered counting patterns explain and elaborate cryptic claims made by the self-taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 1919 by Davide Castelvecchi

Why Belly Pain Is Such a Headache for ER Doctors by Dr. Zachary F. Meisel

Why Belly Pain Is Such a Headache for ER Doctors by Dr. Zachary F. Meisel

Stratblog from Walter Russell Mead website

Stratblog from Walter Russell Mead website

Mad Meat Making Scientist Proves Climate Doomsayers Wrong by Walter Russell Mead

Mad Meat Making Scientist Proves Climate Doomsayers Wrong by Walter Russell Mead

Sun Tzu: The Enemy of the Bureaucratic Mind by Walter Russell Mead

Sun Tzu: The Enemy of the Bureaucratic Mind by Walter Russell Mead

Unbiasing Academia by Megan McArdle

Unbiasing Academia by Megan McArdle

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog website

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog website

Krugman Loses Perspective by Roger Pielke

Krugman Loses Perspective by Roger Pielke

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa

Without Language, Large Numbers Don't Add Up by Jon Hamilton

Without Language, Large Numbers Don't Add Up by Jon Hamilton

California taxes away jobs while Texas adds them by Mark Hemingway

California taxes away jobs while Texas adds them by Mark Hemingway

Are Health-Care Waivers Unconstitutional? by Philip Hamburger

Are Health-Care Waivers Unconstitutional? by Philip Hamburger

Informal Logic from Open Directory Project

Informal Logic from Open Directory Project

Some Fallacies of Argumentation from Tektonics

Some Fallacies of Argumentation from Tektonics

The Reasoning Page website

The Reasoning Page website

Mission Critical website

Mission Critical website

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy website

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy website

Fallacies from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Fallacies from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Fallacies from the Nizkor Project website

Fallacies from the Nizkor Project website

Fallacy Files website

Fallacy Files website

The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope by Eugene Volokh

The Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope by Eugene Volokh

The Monty Hall Problem from The New York Times

The Monty Hall Problem from The New York Times

And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw by John Tierney

And Behind Door No. 1, a Fatal Flaw by John Tierney

Most New York Students Are Not College-Ready by Sharon Otterman

Most New York Students Are Not College-Ready by Sharon Otterman

Elite Institutions Are Tested on Diversity by D.D. Guttenplan

Elite Institutions Are Tested on Diversity by D.D. Guttenplan

Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches by Roni Caryn Rabin

Childhood: Obesity and School Lunches by Roni Caryn Rabin

What’s a Little Swine Flu Outbreak Among Friends? by Nicholas Bakalar

What’s a Little Swine Flu Outbreak Among Friends? by Nicholas Bakalar

DNA Sheds New Light on Polynesian Migration by Sindya N. Bhanoo

DNA Sheds New Light on Polynesian Migration by Sindya N. Bhanoo

Social Scientist Sees Bias Within by John Tierney

Social Scientist Sees Bias Within by John Tierney

An H.I.V. Strategy Invites Addicts In by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.

An H.I.V. Strategy Invites Addicts In by Donald G. McNeil, Jr.

Green-energy plant sucks up subsidies, then goes bust by Timothy P. Carney

Green-energy plant sucks up subsidies, then goes bust by Timothy P. Carney

Demise of the Dictators by Fouad Ajami

Demise of the Dictators by Fouad Ajami

Poetry in money from Larry Ribstein

Poetry in money from Larry Ribstein

The SEC’s Madoff report from Ideoblog

The SEC’s Madoff report from Ideoblog

Press Poses Wrinkle for Critics of Campaign Ruling by Adam Liptak

Press Poses Wrinkle for Critics of Campaign Ruling by Adam Liptak

The History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st. By a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian. Jane Austen

The History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st. By a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant Historian. Jane Austen

History Quotations from The History Guide

History Quotations from The History Guide

A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson

A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar (1785) by Samuel Johnson Volume 1

A dictionary of the English language : in which the words are deduced from their originals, explained in their different meanings and authorized by the names of the writers in whose works they are found (1766) by Samuel Johnson Volume 2

Hosni K. Mubarak, Will You Please Go Now? by Megan McArdle

Hosni K. Mubarak, Will You Please Go Now? by Megan McArdle

Credit Crackdowns Are an Opportunity For Pawnshops by Megan McArdle

Credit Crackdowns Are an Opportunity For Pawnshops by Megan McArdle

On Poverty, Interest Rates, and Payday Loans by Megan McArdle

On Poverty, Interest Rates, and Payday Loans by Megan McArdle

An Experimental Analysis of the Demand for Payday Loans by Bart J. Wilson et al

An Experimental Analysis of the Demand for Payday Loans by Bart J. Wilson et al

Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms by Terrence Aym

Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms by Terrence Aym

Mystery of the mummy's Chinese travel ban by Clifford Coonan

Mystery of the mummy's Chinese travel ban by Clifford Coonan

At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run by Nick Cohen

At last, Islam's appeasers may be on the run by Nick Cohen

After the Gold Rush by Charles G. Hill

After the Gold Rush by Charles G. Hill

Obama Preaches the False Religion of Corporate Social Responsibility from Professor Bainbridge

Obama Preaches the False Religion of Corporate Social Responsibility from Professor Bainbridge

Does America have a lawyer problem, or a law problem? by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Does America have a lawyer problem, or a law problem? by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Anger and a Facebook Page That Gave It Voice by Jennifer Preston

Anger and a Facebook Page That Gave It Voice by Jennifer Preston

A Struggle to Disarm People Without Gun Rights by Ed Connolly and Michael Luo

A Struggle to Disarm People Without Gun Rights by Ed Connolly and Michael Luo

Celebrating black history as the black family disintegrates by Colbert I. King

Celebrating black history as the black family disintegrates by Colbert I. King

Teenagers, Friends and Bad Decisions by Tara Parker-Pope

Teenagers, Friends and Bad Decisions by Tara Parker-Pope

The Julie Project by Darcy Padilla

The Julie Project by Darcy Padilla

Income Inequality Increments from Tax Policy Center

Income Inequality Increments from Tax Policy Center

Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich by Catherine Rampell

Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich by Catherine Rampell

Adam Smith and the Inequity of Nations by Keith Johnson

Adam Smith and the Inequity of Nations by Keith Johnson

The Evolution of Despair by Robert Wright

The Evolution of Despair by Robert Wright

Why Income Inequality Matters from Freakonomics

Why Income Inequality Matters from Freakonomics

The Inequality Conundrum by Roger Lowenstein

The Inequality Conundrum by Roger Lowenstein

Thy Neighbor’s Wealth by Catherine Rampell

Thy Neighbor’s Wealth by Catherine Rampell

The Toulmin Project website

The Toulmin Project website

Establishing Arguments from Purdue Online Writing Lab

Establishing Arguments from Purdue Online Writing Lab

Argument-Specific Terms from evolvingtextbook.com

Argument-Specific Terms from evolvingtextbook.com

Modelling Argumentation, Toulmin-style by Ian Alexander

Modelling Argumentation, Toulmin-style by Ian Alexander

Classical and Contemporary Arrangement website

Classical and Contemporary Arrangement website

The Toulmin Method from Colorado State University

The Toulmin Method from Colorado State University

Is College a Bad Public Good? by Jane S. Shaw

Is College a Bad Public Good? by Jane S. Shaw

Shaken-Baby Syndrome Faces New Questions in Court by Emily Bazelon

Shaken-Baby Syndrome Faces New Questions in Court by Emily Bazelon

Introduction to logic from Lander University Philosophy Department

Introduction to logic from Lander University Philosophy Department

5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Statistically B.S.)by Mark M. and M. Asher Cantrell

5 Complaints About Modern Life (That Are Statistically B.S.)by Mark M. and M. Asher Cantrell

The recession and recovery in perspective from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

The recession and recovery in perspective from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Why Is Wall Street So Addicted to Prestige Colleges? by John Carney

Why Is Wall Street So Addicted to Prestige Colleges? by John Carney

Walter Bagehot archive

Walter Bagehot archive

A Swede by Any Other Name. In Fact, Many Swedes by John Tagliabue

A Swede by Any Other Name. In Fact, Many Swedes by John Tagliabue

The amazing truth about PISA scores: USA beats Western Europe, ties with Asia from Super Economy

The amazing truth about PISA scores: USA beats Western Europe, ties with Asia from Super Economy

The Myth of Racial Discrimination in Pay in the United States by Satoshi Kanazawa

The Myth of Racial Discrimination in Pay in the United States by Satoshi Kanazawa

PISA Scores Show Demography Is Destiny In Education Too—But Washington Doesn’t Want You To Know by Steve Sailer

PISA Scores Show Demography Is Destiny In Education Too—But Washington Doesn’t Want You To Know by Steve Sailer

Marginal Revolution website

Marginal Revolution website

Booksellers versus Bestsellers website

Booksellers versus Bestsellers website

Better Book Titles website

Better Book Titles website

The Haves and the Have-Nots by Catherine Rampell

The Haves and the Have-Nots by Catherine Rampell

40 Fascinating Blogs for the Ultimate Statistics Geek from BSchool

40 Fascinating Blogs for the Ultimate Statistics Geek from BSchool

Infosthetics website

Infosthetics website

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics website

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics website

Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List by Noam Cohen

Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List by Noam Cohen

Think twice by Philip Delves Broughton

Think twice by Philip Delves Broughton

The Economics of Kitchens by Megan McArdle

The Economics of Kitchens by Megan McArdle

Spilled Milk by Thomas Sowell

Spilled Milk by Thomas Sowell