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Knowns and Unknowns | A Noteworthy Year
by noteworthy at 9:14 am EST, Dec 20, 2009

Did Texas execute an innocent man?

You can't eat panda ... they are too greasy!

More than 80 percent of the male smallmouth bass in the Potomac are producing eggs.

The crucial questions in history often turn out to involve things that people at the time simply did not understand.

23% of all mortgage borrowers in the US are underwater.

As David Li himself said of his own model: "The most dangerous part is when people believe everything coming out of it."

$500 can build things that change how people live.

The implicit assumption of these arguments about strategy is that there is, somewhere out there, a workable strategy. That there is some way to navigate our political system such that you enact wise legislation solving pressing problems. But that's an increasingly uncertain assumption, I think.

A survey last year by the business daily Nikkei found that only 25 percent of Japanese men in their 20s wanted a car, down from 48 percent in 2000, contributing to the slump in sales.

A common mistake of very smart people is to assume that other people's minds work in the same way that theirs do.

By the age of five, American children are already a year behind their Asian counterparts in the most fundamental of math skills.

All too often, creativity goes hand in hand with mental illness. Now we're starting to understand why.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in May that births to unmarried women have reached an astonishing 39.7%.

Your algorithmic mind can be ready to fire on all cylinders, but it can't help you if you never engage it.

Fully 88% of the EU's stocks are overfished.

You can make an argument that the end of the housing crash is near. But that's not what I found at the auctions.

There will be 25 million fewer cars on the road in the US in the next five years.


 
 
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