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Heather MacDonald says recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most common social theories that came out of the 1960s: the idea that the root cause of crime lies in income inequality and social injustice. As the economy started shedding jobs in 2008, criminologists and pundits predicted that crime would shoot up. Instead, the opposite happened. Over seven million lost jobs later, crime has plummeted to its lowest level since the early 1960s.
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The expected retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens and subsequent supreme court nomination fight will cast a bright light on judicial theories of interpretation. Get them here.
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Reporting in 'The New Yorker' Atul Gawande says the absence of sweeping cost-control programs in favor of pilot programs in Senate health care legislation is a good thing. In the first third of the 1900s, the USDA took the same approach and transformed American farming and food production from similarly dire straits.
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The number of donut shops in a city is directly proportional to its crime rate. More crime => more Police Officers-per-capita => larger donut consumption potential => more donut shops.
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Famous, powerful men who stray would be smart to choose women who have just as much to lose if the liaison were exposed.
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Step aside turkey. There's a lot more behind that post-meal nap than tryptophan.
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The first major biography of Justice Antonin Scalia was released this week. In it, legal reporter Joan Biskupic offers a detailed account of the life and theory of Scalia, the standard bearer of the judicial theory of constitutional originalism.
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Chicago didn't lose the 2016 Olympics because of Obama or Oprah, it lost because Chicago's nerds bested Chicago's jocks.
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Chicago will get the 2016 Summer Olympics not so much because President Obama is making a pitch, but rather because the IOC and the Chicago machine are two sides of the same coin: experts in influence peddling and backroom deals.
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Senator Ted Kennedy's 4 decades in the Senate tally up an impressive legacy. Kennedy created more change for more Americans than either JFK or RFK.
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Get ready for dueling judicial theories: Sonia Sotomayor's Judicial Minimalism vs. John Roberts' Judicial Restraint.
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The feel good theory that, at separate times, has led to unjust war and saved the nation.
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Forty one years after Ray's arrest, read check out the theory that changed the King family's minds.
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Scott Roeder wasn't the only triggerman in the death of Dr. George Tiller
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Turns out, the meteorite that supposedly killed the dinosaurs may have been 300,000 years late.
Human motivation exists in a five-tiered structure. The five tiers from lowest to highest are sociological needs, personal security needs, social needs, esteem needs and the penultimate need: self-actualization.
Great man creat history through their actions, leadership, art, and innovation. At least, Carlyle thought so in the 19th century.
Want to know the secret to personalities and personal success? Use hair part theory. It worked for Margaret Thatcher.
A theory developed by Pavlov that shows one can change a stimulus part of a stimulus-response pattern (like a flinch from a loud noise) to something neutral (a blue light turning on) and generate the same response. In this example, the blue light could cause the subject to flinch.
The explanation for 'Lost' is Jason Hunter's Time Loop theory. But you have to see it to really get it.
The island used to be connected to the rest of the Earth, but was detached during electromagnetism experiments conducted by the Dharma Initiative. It is capable of traveling anywhere with the only parameter being gravity
The most widespread and enduring conspiracy theories—British intelligence killed Princess Diana, the U.S. government orchestrated 9/11—are completely absurd. But that doesn’t stop them from drawing a vast and vehement audience. David Aaronovitch picks apart 12 grand conspiracy theories to conclude that they are concocted and promoted, in large part, by educated losers. (Yes, he actually calls them losers.)
'Gravity' hints at the passion behind Newton's theoriesDetroit Free PressBY JOHN MONAGHAN It's an image planted in the mind of every schoolkid: Isaac Newton sits beneath an apple tree as a shiny red orb bonks him on the noggin. ... ABC's Lost: Lighthouse Episode Recap & TheoriesMetrowny.com...
Now that they've had two days to think about it, what can the Internet's brainiest 'Lost' theorists tell us about the show's final season?
Inflation theory, which posits that the universe ballooned from subatomic scale to the size of a soccer ball during its first 10-33 seconds, has had great ...
There are a million different ingenious theories out there that explain this or that certain phenomenon and many are very complicated. See which one are surfacing on the interwebs today.
Nick Jonas (and the Administration) has just released a new song and it's called "Conspiracy Theory."
Listen to the newest single from his upcoming album "Who I Am" below:
Amateur historian Rick Rogers has spent decades developing a theory that either Dutch or Spanish traders visited Hawaii before Captain Cook's 1778 arrival. Maps from 1589 showing an approximation of Hawaii's shape and location; remains of a 1664 women indicating she had syphilis and the disappearance of 5 Spanish ships plying the Manila to Acapulco trade in the 1500 and 1600s make his case.
Scholars at the global warming skeptics thinktank, "The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)" say ocean acidification theory is a scare tactic ignores Cambrian data, the chemistry of CO2 and the alkaline affect of ocean rocks.
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