Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say one thing & do another.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don't, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity's steady payout provides a little extra incentive to keep chugging along.