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We Read It: Levitt & Dubner's 'Superfreakonomics' Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, the authors behind Freakonomics, are back with a sequel, inevitably titled SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. Four observations from the dismal-science duo: *Buy poor women TVs. In rural India, women are less likely to tolerate abuse and more likely to send their daughters to school when they live in a home with cable television. *Rather than building levees to minimize damage from hurricanes, just prevent them. Large, floating cylinders in the Gulf of Mexico could cheaply push warm surface water deeper, cooling the ocean and disrupting the conditions in which hurricanes are born. Saturday, October 31, 2009 Read more...(1 Pages)
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