If you want to know which poker hands to bluff with, why neighbourhoods with permanent residents have more road crossings or why digital communication makes the world spikier not flatter, Mr Harford's book provides some answers.

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With game servers based in Iceland, Seals With Clubs is dealing about 10, 000 hands of poker per day and raking only about 4, 000 of them.

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Zynga game players have drawn 43, 000 pictures, played 38, 000 hands of poker, opened 250, 000 gifts from friends, played 140, 000 turns of games together, and have sent more than 5, 000 chats.

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The scuttle contained only a scarcity of coals and he would want those for his studies, so he gashed the fireplace embers with an iron poker and held his hands over their golden, waning heat.

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Like keen poker players, the justices usually refrain from revealing their hands during these exchanges.

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