Go figure : things you didn't know you didn't know : the Economist explains

Standage, Tom. (Author). Economist Newspaper Limited. (Added Author).

Go Figure: Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know brings together for the first time the very best explainers and charts, written and created by top journalists to help us understand such brain-bending conundrums as why almost half the population of Korea has one of two surnames, how bitcoin mining works, and the seasonal distribution of dog poo on the streets of New York. Subjects both topical and timeless, profound and peculiar, are explained with The Economist trademark wit and verve.

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ISBN: 9781610397438
Physical Description 247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2016.

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General Note:	"First published in 2016 by Profile Books Ltd. in Great Britain"--Title page verso. Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Mind-stretchers: things you didn't know you didn't know -- Cribsheets: things you've quietly always wondered -- Global curiosities: things some countries do differently -- By the numbers: economical with the truth -- Also on the menu: leisure and pleasure -- Geek speak: technically speaking -- The life scientific.

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Go Figure : Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction: journey into the unknowns	p. 1
	Mind-stretchers: things you didn't know you didn't know	p. 5
	How a tattoo affects your job prospects	p. 7
	How a baby can have three parents	p. 9
	How marriage makes people healthier	p. 11
	How to get ahead under a dictatorship	p. 13
	Why India and China face a marriage crisis	p. 15
	Why Sweden has so few road deaths	p. 16
	Constructive one-upmanship	p. 18
	Why the first world war wasn't, really	p. 20
	The hidden cost of Gangnam Style	p. 22
	Why the AK-47 rifle became so popular	p. 23
	Why most death-row inmates will die of old age	p. 25
	The seasonality and distribution of New York's dog poo	p. 27
	Why the world's vultures are vanishing	p. 29
	Why time could be running out for leap seconds	p. 31
	Cribsheets: things you've quietly always wondered	p. 33
	How a dialect differs from a language	p. 35
	Why Islam prohibits images of Muhammad	p. 37
	How America's police became so well-armed	p. 39
	Where are the world's most "liveable" cities?	p. 42
	What is El NiÃ±o?	p. 44
	Grid of grievances	p. 46
	The difference between "less" and "fewer"	p. 48
	Who wants to live for ever?	p. 50
	Why so many Koreans are called Kim	p. 52
	Why you can't get a signal on your phone	p. 54
	How hurricanes get their names	p. 56
	How people in different countries spend their money	p. 58
	What defines a "frozen conflict"?	p. 60
	How Shia and Sunni Muslims differ	p. 61
	Which government asks for the most data from Facebook?	p. 63
	The difference between comets, asteroids and meteors	p. 65
	What Satanists actually believe	p. 66
	Global curiosities: things some countries do differently	p. 69
	Why the French are so strict about Islamic head-coverings	p. 71
	Why Japan leads the world in high-speed trains	p. 73
	More neighbours make more fences	p. 75
	Why North Korea turned back its clocks	p. 78
	Why so many American women die in childbirth	p. 80
	Which countries lose the most on gambling?	p. 82
	What China means by "democracy"	p. 84
	Why some Indian castes are demanding lower status	p. 86
	How Asians view each other	p. 88
	Why Saudi Arabians love social media so much	p. 90
	How Europeans view each other	p. 92
	Where the Maltese language comes from	p. 94
	Why the Japanese are having fewer babies	p. 96
	The world's most innovative countries	p. 98
	Why pigs are so important to China	p. 100
	Why are so many adults adopted in Japan?	p. 101
	By the numbers: economical with the truth	p. 103
	Health-care spending: America's longevity gap	p. 105
	Why lesbians earn more than straight women	p. 106
	What will the world's population look like in 2050?	p. 108
	Why big banknotes may be on the way out	p. 110
	Why prostitutes are lowering their prices	p. 112
	The economics of Panini football stickers	p. 114
	Do rent controls work?	p. 116
	The economic case against minimum wages	p. 118
	Who are the Pyongyangites of Pyonghattan?	p. 120
	Why do so many Dutch people work part-time?	p. 122
	The thinking behind feminist economics	p. 124
	Why Swedish men take so much paternity leave	p. 126
	Which countries' citizens are best at managing their money?	p. 128
	Why the UN doesn't pay its interns	p. 130
	Thomas Piketty's Capital summarised in four paragraphs	p. 132
	How airlines cut costs	p. 134
	Why private schooling is on the decline in England	p. 136
	Also on the menu: leisure and pleasure	p. 139
	Why Guinness is less Irish than you think	p. 141
	Booze, bonks and bodies	p. 143
	Why people like pizza in hard times	p. 145
	Why women's sport is less popular than men's	p. 147
	Why eating insects makes sense	p. 149
	A graphical history of Disney films	p. 150
	How India Pale Ale conquered the world	p. 153
	Why doping in sport is so hard to catch	p. 155
	The careers of the original Star Wars cast	p. 158
	How professional sportsmen observe Ramadan	p. 160
	David Bowie's genre-hopping career	p. 162
	Why eating chocolate is good for you	p. 164
	Shape shifter: Batman on film - how has his physique changed?	p. 166
	Why Indians love cricket so much	p. 169
	Geek speak: technically speaking	p. 171
	How to trace a cyber-weapon	p. 173
	How online advertisers read your mind	p. 175
	The best time to post a selfie (or anything else) on Facebook	p. 177
	Why video-games are expensive to make	p. 179
	How virtual reality works	p. 181
	How machine learning works	p. 183
	Tech-tonic shifts	p. 186
	How technology made fashion week passÃ©	p. 188
	What is code?	p. 190
	Never gonna put you down	p. 192
	The trouble with space junk	p. 193
	How Bitcoin works	p. 195
	The life scientific	p. 197
	How to search for time travellers	p. 199
	How to debunk a scientific study	p. 201
	Why the Zika virus was ignored for so long	p. 203
	Why cancer has not been cured	p. 205
	From the depths	p. 206
	How life on Earth began, probably	p. 208
	Why salt may not be so bad for you after all	p. 210
	Why there is weather in space	p. 212
	Why homeopathy is nonsense	p. 214
	Why there is a shortage of cadavers	p. 216
	What's behind the decline in bee populations?	p. 218
	Noodles of longevity	p. 220
	How astronomers know "dark matter" exists	p. 222
	Why Pluto is no longer a planet	p. 224
	Why the sky is blue	p. 226
	How to make an invisibility cloak	p. 228
	Afterword: why explainer articles have become so popular	p. 231
	Contributors	p. 233
	Index	p. 234

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