Comments on: Freakonomics

By: Dervala

Dervala — Sun, 01 May 2005 23:34:19 +0000

Eoin—ooh, thanks for letting me know. These new Google ads are giving me endless entertainment; what a random take on the content they provide.

Riona—I could never solve the Crosaires (I’m not very good at puzzles) but they seemed much more entertaining than the workaday American puzzles. It kind of reminds me of the way I spell words aloud—if I shut my eyes and don’t think about it, I can reel it off, as if I were reading a mental image of the word, but if I think about it conventionally, I stumble.

I did like Blink, and I like most of what he writes, but I think his style is dangerously seductive and I worry about the half-baked versions of his already light studies that now float around.

By: eoin

eoin — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 19:22:53 +0000

Hey you have adds in the RSS feed! Google is using you as a pilot :-)

By: Riona MacNamara

Riona MacNamara — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:34:28 +0000

I loved Blink. I’m looking at everything differently since I read it. Something I’d love to understand: did you ever do the Irish Times Crosaire puzzle? I was totally addicted (it’s still my dream to win the live competition they have every year.) The clues are generally puzzles, unlike American crossword clues, which are more of a general-knowledge test. And sometimes, you intuitively leap to what appears to be a very non-intuitive answer. And then have to work backwards to figure out why it’s correct. I wonder about the processes behind that.

I like reading about your new life.