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A review by kimball_hansen
Superfreakonomics CD: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
3.0
I read [b:Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything|1202|Freakonomics A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)|Steven D. Levitt|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327909092s/1202.jpg|5397] last year and really liked it. I was also playing Plablo while I read it and that made it even more ingrained in my mind. This book was decent and not as great as the original, however. Could have been that I'm more worn out at work than I was last year. Still a good, informative book though.
The point of these little freakonomics stories is that people respond to incentives. True incentives.
One of the stories is about prostitutes. At one point it was discovered that they are more likely to have beep with a cop than be arrested by one. That's wild. But not too surprising. Now I know what Turning Tricks means. I wonder if that Dire Straights song about getting your money for nothing and your tricks for free is talking about that stuff.
Scrutiny has a powerful effect on humans and altering our behavior. However, in animals or other things, scrutiny has no effect.
The author talked about a few neat devices to assist with natural disasters and global warming. The first is this hurricane killer mechanism. Basically a huge net over the water than would change the temperature a tad to reduce the force of a hurricane while it comes a-roaring. Hopefully this won't flop like the hurricane seeding idea. The second device would be a huge rod that goes to the stratosphere and would distribute sulfur to cool off the earth a tad. This works the same as many volcanoes erupting.
The author made a comment that local farming increases more greenhouse gas than huge big "efficient" farms. That's peculiar because we just learned in [b:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life|25460|Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life|Barbara Kingsolver|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1480104279s/25460.jpg|1582285] they said the opposite. There is always two sides to a coin I suppose.
I wonder how many people have LowJack? Is it 1% of the population? You'd think the car industries would make it standard like how they do with Bluetooth. LowJack helps even those people who don't have it because the crooks are more skeptical.
The point of these little freakonomics stories is that people respond to incentives. True incentives.
One of the stories is about prostitutes. At one point it was discovered that they are more likely to have beep with a cop than be arrested by one. That's wild. But not too surprising. Now I know what Turning Tricks means. I wonder if that Dire Straights song about getting your money for nothing and your tricks for free is talking about that stuff.
Scrutiny has a powerful effect on humans and altering our behavior. However, in animals or other things, scrutiny has no effect.
The author talked about a few neat devices to assist with natural disasters and global warming. The first is this hurricane killer mechanism. Basically a huge net over the water than would change the temperature a tad to reduce the force of a hurricane while it comes a-roaring. Hopefully this won't flop like the hurricane seeding idea. The second device would be a huge rod that goes to the stratosphere and would distribute sulfur to cool off the earth a tad. This works the same as many volcanoes erupting.
The author made a comment that local farming increases more greenhouse gas than huge big "efficient" farms. That's peculiar because we just learned in [b:Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life|25460|Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life|Barbara Kingsolver|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1480104279s/25460.jpg|1582285] they said the opposite. There is always two sides to a coin I suppose.
I wonder how many people have LowJack? Is it 1% of the population? You'd think the car industries would make it standard like how they do with Bluetooth. LowJack helps even those people who don't have it because the crooks are more skeptical.