Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy briefly unsettled by asking why he was breaking an election manifesto promise not to introduce top up fees for students.

BBC: Oh the sincerity of it all.

Zappos aims to reduce the number of returns over the long haul by asking customers why they were dissatisfied in the first place.

FORBES: Many Happy Returns

This is a matter for individual decisions, my own position is that I'm going to have to be talking about asylum a very great deal and I do not want a distraction by everybody keeping asking me why I haven't signed this pledge rather than by concentrating on the policy.

BBC: News Online

Barrister Guy Tritton also questioned the nature of the letters sent by ACS: Law, asking why it described MediaCAT as a "copyright protection society" - a title that he said was "misleading".

BBC: Law firm ACS: Law stops 'chasing illegal file-sharers'

Gore countered by asking the former New Jersey senator why he voted against expanding the number of black-owned television stations.

CNN: Stuart Rothenberg: Bradley and Gore slam each other at the Apollo

Like that 30-minute, long-distance haranguing from a member of my ex-husband's family asking me why I was "damaging" my child by "labeling" him.

CNN: A mother's anger: Stop linking autism to violence

But the meat of the book is original: Ms Pinker finds out why men and women travelled along different career trajectories by the simple method of asking them.

ECONOMIST: Men, women and work