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Thinking like a Freak

Education — The authors of Freakonomics offer to retrain your brain [Books]
Educationperpetualest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 685 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
amazon.com
edge
direct origin
server
Server
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Thinking like a Freak's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investingeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Algorithms to Live Byeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Hidden Life of Treeseducationsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Ageeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Emotional Life of Your Braineducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Witches: Salem, 1692educationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigaleducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Thing Explainereducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelperpetual
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:42Z200amazon.comServer941alive
2026-08-19 13:56Z200amazon.comServer642alive
2026-08-11 00:31Z200amazon.comServer31alive
2026-08-08 06:23Z200amazon.comServer1274alive
2026-08-05 18:43Z200amazon.comServer59alive
2026-07-30 17:58Z200amazon.comServer974alive
2026-07-22 09:49Z200amazon.comServer1368alive
2026-07-17 09:32Z200amazon.comServer148alive
2026-07-10 10:54Z200amazon.comServer801alive
2026-07-04 12:51Z200amazon.comServer1065alive
2026-06-23 14:00Z200amazon.comServer851alive
2026-06-21 17:04Z200amazon.comServer461alive
2026-06-21 17:04Z200amazon.comServer848alive
2026-06-20 00:44Z200amazon.comServer130alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Thinking like a Freak · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/thinking-like-a-freak · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.