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Stephen levitt and Stephen Dubner with their new book called think like a freak. What i find is truly smart people, in my view, the smartest people are the ones who can explain whats going on in their thought processes. Were surrounded by people who are putitively really smart and you ask them why theyre thinking and they try. But really smart people can explain it. One of the most important things is to say i dont know, to not think you have the answers. As an academic i dont know anything. Min...

Dubner with their new book called think like a freak. What i find is truly smart people, in my view, the smartest people are the ones who can explain whats going on in their thought processes. Were surrounded by people who are putitively really smart and you ask them why theyre thinking and they try. But really smart people can explain it. One of the most important things is to say i dont know, to not think you have the answers. As an academic i dont know anything. Ming mick, wooldridge, levitt ...

Some there, it is making a bit of a push inland and it was rather shallow but it is up around 13,000 feet and it will get a higher push over the next couple of days. Fog is there, inland temperatures will be in the 70s and 80s but more 40s and 50s and there is a decent delta breeze, its there, not howling and once you get 20 t5 we will keep an eye on it. We are keeping an intensity and it will not be here until late friday or saturday except for some and today there is a lot of 60s and 70s, here...

Kicking off attack and the big show known as ces. The annual consumer electronic show. Every year the Biggest Companies and innovators end up in las vegas. They bring tvs, smartphones, robots, you name it or it a all looking for buzz. Sorts of stuff. Everyone is trying to pitch you on what you have going on. Paul, has a big move here. Dish service revisors qualcomm as a big booth here. Dish service providers. You would expect the biggest news on day one would be some old technological innovation...

She will be with us live. Sue is out, but simon is in at the new york stock exchange, simon. Yes, weve lost 17,000 on the dow. Only six members are in positive territory. It is the credit card manufacturers, although the credit card players and indeed the insurers that are leading the freight down. Visa of course guidance, very poor, and thats a real problem for the Dow Jones Industrial average right now. I want to turn to crude, past 11 00, we saw spike in brent. Moving to the juch side, this i...

Valley . First, check of the top headlines turkeys twitter crackdown is over for a while. The court ruled the ban violated freedom of expression. The news comes after the prime ministers party won elections after a corruption investigation. 90 of media is selling its initial investment in barnes itsble and will abandon seat at barnes noble. Apple says its annual Worldwide Development conference will take place in june. Ticketing will not be firstcome first serve. Developers will have to read wil...

Effectively elections. Even pending with out if you will allow me to ask a question. I am a member of a conference and i went out of it. Stuart we are learning about that exchange was Elijah Cummings and darrell issa. Darrell issa is accusing cummings of colluding with the irs to target the conservative group true the vote. Darrell issa says a member of cummingss staff repeatedly contacted the irs asking for derek. Lerner, the woman at the heart of the scandal was involved in responding to those...

Lets check yourforecast. It looks like temperatures are cooler than average. We are starting to cool down we are starting to cool down. We will go out the door with patchy fog and the winds around the bay area. We will see gusts of 30 to 40 40 Miles Per Hour. We will see the temperatures up in the 70s still in the valleys. You will see 60s and 70s inside the bay but cool and breezy. 50s and 60s toward the coastline. Looking o out at the bay. We have patches of fog a little sunshine coming our wa...

Editorinchief, james bennet. Thank you, commissioner, for being with us today. [applause] i thought id open with a familiar, oftrepeated statistic that i thought i should repeat again. Youll correct me if i have it wrong. In 1990, there were 2,245 homicide in the city of new york, which i think was the record mark. And last year there were 333 homicides in the city of new york. Though the population had grown by a Million People in the meantime, and there are however many millions more visitors ...

The coast of isla vista and later a tribute to the victims at uc berkeley is planned. Here is a preview of the service tonight. Terry . Reporter im right here in the middle of the uc berkeley campus. You might not be familiar with memorial glade, which is right here, and this is where the memorial is going to take place at 8 00 tonight. Take a look at video right now from isla vista last friday night and why there is a need for this event. Interesting, a uc berkeley graduate student, who did her...