Freakonomics: Book 2
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Scott K edited the memorable quotes of Super Freakonomics Wednesday, April 20, 2011.
- Added a quotation: “It is a fact of life that people love to complain, particularly abouthow terrible the modern world is compared with the past. They are nearly always wrong. On just about any dimension you can think of - welfare, crime, income, education, transportation, worker safety, health - the twenty-first century is far more hospitable to the average human than any earlier time”
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Two Readers in Love edited the memorable quotes of Super Freakonomics Sunday, November 7, 2010.
- Added a quotation: “In the late 1940s, three General Electric scientists in Schenectady, New York, successfully seeded clouds with silver iodide. The trio included a chemist named Bernard Vonnegut; the project's public-relations man was his younger brother Kurt, who went on to become a world-class novelist - and in his writing, he used a good bit of the far-out science he picked up in Schenectady."”
- Added a quotation: “So Budyko's Blanket could effectively reverse global warming at a total cost of $250 million. Compared with that $1.2 trillion that Nicholas Stern proposes spending each year to attack the problem, IV's idea is, well, practically free. It would cost $50 million less to stop global warming than what Al Gore's foundation is paying just to increase public awareness about global warming”
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Two Readers in Love edited the memorable quotes of Super Freakonomics Sunday, November 7, 2010.
- Added a quotation: “But a surprising fact is that the accidental death rate for soldiers in the early 1980s was higher than the death rate by hostile fire for every year the United States has been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seems that practicing to fight a war can be just about as dangerous as really fighting one.And, to further put things in perspective, think about this: since 1982, some 42,000 active U.S. military personnel have been killed - roughly the same number of Americans who die in traffic accidents in a single year.”
- Added a quotation: “So while the true believers bemoan the desecration of our earthly Eden, the heretics point out that this Eden, long before humans arrived, once became so naturally thick with methane smog that it was rendered nearly lifeless. When Al Gore urges the citizenry to sacrifice their plastic shopping bags, their air-conditioning, their extraneous travel, the agnostics grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions, with the remainder generated by natural processes like plant decay."”
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Two Readers in Love edited the memorable quotes of Super Freakonomics Sunday, November 7, 2010.
- Added a quotation: “In the end, Feied won - or, really, the data won. Axyxxi went live on a single desktop computer in the WHC emergency room. Feied put a sign on it: "Beta Test: Do Not Use." (No one ever said he wasn't clever.) Like so many Adams and Eves, doctors and nurses began to peck at the forbidden fruit and found it nothing short of miraculous”
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