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Why You Should Like: The Twenty % Tippers
One day last September, the mail included a hand-addressed envelope with a New York City postmark and a return address that turned out to be a Mail Boxes Etc. store near Times Square. Inside
Read More »Numberscruncher: Earthquakes
On Saturday, another devastating earthquake hit, in Chile, and that gives us another chance to look at some of the numbers associated with earthquakes and rebuilding. The Richter scale, used to measure the magnitude
Read More »Numberscruncher: Cheap Trick Takes On Nielsen SoundScan
Cheap Trick, the pride of Rockford, has a new CD out called The Latest. It’s been released through Tunecore , a service that makes it easy for bands to sell downloads of their music
Read More »Numberscruncher: Making Money on Elections
February 2 is Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney and Election Day in Illinois. We have a lot of hot contests here in the state because our governor, who took office after Rod Blagojevich resigned, is
Read More »Numberscruncher: Getting Value from Intellectual Property
Sita Sings the Blues is a great, sad movie about a breakup. The creator, Nina Paley, mixes animation styles and narrators, using the story of the Hindu gods Rama and Sita in the Ramayana.
Read More »Numberscruncher: Who Needs the Radio?
When I was a kid, I had to listen to whatever the DJ picked. One of the odder decade-end lists was Nielsen’s list of the most-played singles on radio between 2000 and 2009. It’s
Read More »Numberscruncher: Taxes Around the World
Americans have a unique phobia about taxes. Years ago, politicians told us that we could have more stuff by paying less money, and we liked that. And so, we believe it despite all evidence
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