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- Sep. 11th, 2009 at 11:45 AM
This is the cycle of authors named Steve who publish with their middle initial.
- 22. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- These two Steves ramble around studying numbers and looking at wacky correlations of data about crime, sumo wrestling and other things that seem unconnected. The Steves do a decent job of hammering home that correlation != causation while doing a decent job of trying to find actual causes. A decent read, and much quicker to get through than I expected. I hated the end note style - notes were unreferenced in the text, so you had to go flip to the end of the book and see if they put in a note for the fact you wanted to check.
- 23. Ariel by Steven R. Boyett
- A boy and his unicorn in a fairy tale post-apocalyptic world. I'm looking forward to the sequel.
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I still get freaked when I sit on a wobbly chair. Ick.
What I found really interesting was how contraversial the findings on abortion and crime was. That and I need to find a bigger bonus for my agent if I ever do sell my home.