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  1. Loneliness or Cheap Wine: I'm alone in Europe, living in an apartment and cooking for myself. I bought a bottle .. http://tinyurl.com/lhu7kz
  2. Polling: What's the Point?: Conor Clarke suggests removing polls from the American political process. Not only a.. http://tinyurl.com/n9ryxl
  3. When Credit Card Companies Compete, You Win: Barry Nalebuff and I have a new column in Forbes ("A Market Test fo.. http://tinyurl.com/mmuh7f
  4. At Least the French Are Honest: After winning a stage of the Tour de France, Frenchman Thomas Voeckler was quote.. http://tinyurl.com/l2jfea
  5. Looking for Someone to Blame?: In an article headlined "The Man Who Crashed the World" Michael Lewis profiles Jo.. http://tinyurl.com/mnkwfy
  6. Quotes Uncovered: Brides and Fruit Flies: A while back, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wa.. http://tinyurl.com/kk5v3z
  7. "Family Values" and the Law: A Guest Post: We previously featured some compelling guest posts by the legal schol.. http://tinyurl.com/lbvg6c
  8. Would You Pay More ...: ... for a Sanka ashtray if Luc Sante made up a story about it? Apparently at least a few.. http://tinyurl.com/n7ycf7
  9. A SuperFreakonomics Counting Contest: The mother of all deadlines fast approaches: our new book, SuperFreakonomi.. http://tinyurl.com/l8yxt6
  10. Shopping for Gamblers: How can Swoopo, the online auction site, rake in $2,151 selling a laptop for $35.86? Easy.. http://tinyurl.com/m79mx5
  11. Track Your Taxes: Concerned citizens can now track government spending at USASpending.gov. Users can view curren.. http://tinyurl.com/npfv3w
  12. Man vs. Machine on Jeopardy: IBM researchers are hard at work creating a computer that will match wits against h.. http://tinyurl.com/mfjcja
  13. Domo Arigato Missus Krugman: Slate columnist Daniel Gross thinks he's found the female embodiment of Paul Krugma.. http://tinyurl.com/kltlkz
  14. The Nanny Nation: Barry Ritholtz, in his new book Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street.. http://tinyurl.com/m9d3xz
  15. FREAK Shots: Bird Critics: A new study by a research team from Tokyo's Keio University found that pigeons can di.. http://tinyurl.com/mgodbb
  16. How to Decrease Emissions: Americans responded to the economic crisis and rising oil prices in 2008 by driving l.. http://tinyurl.com/ljg7oa
  17. Paved With Good Intentions Contest: The Winner: It was an extremely close race, but t paciello, come on up and t.. http://tinyurl.com/lcm2qe
  18. Stat Candy: After viewing this data candy from baekdal.com, the BBC's Michael Blastland wonders: is there a poin.. http://tinyurl.com/l8g73a
  19. The Next Financial Crisis: Virtual Banks: By now, the financial woes of Lehman, Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual,.. http://tinyurl.com/nnqor6
  20. White House Economist Austan Goolsbee Answers Your Questions: Two weeks ago, we solicited your questions for Whi.. http://tinyurl.com/ns2mrr