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The introduction of a wealth tax would be bold and counterintuitive from a Tory prime minister.

"All of Los Angeles is counterintuitive from a safety standpoint," Mr. Yaroslavsky said.

But in considering "Invisibilia" itself, I wonder, as I often have in the past few years, whether we've come to expect the encouraging and the counterintuitive from entertaining long-form journalism.

Furthermore, the analysis of social phenomena at this level can often generate results that are counterintuitive from an action-theoretic perspective.

That is precisely why the popularity of the "Boyfriend tracker" app (and the upset over its deletion from the Google Play app store) is so counterintuitive from the American perspective.

This last criterion may seem counterintuitive from a standpoint of being able to detect the biomarker, but it ensures that the activity being detected is current.

In its song "Portland Sucks," the local band White Fang pokes profanely at everything from the city's joblessness to its self-obsession and sometimes counterintuitive rigidity, from "angry vegans" to outspoken disciples of do-it-yourself ("DIY") culture -- localism in the extreme.

The latest batch of counterintuitive thoughts from the authors of Freakonomics.

Mid-morning, West London With the pack now in indiscriminate pursuit of MPs' expenses, here's a counterintuitive tale from a temporarily abandoned hunt: MPs paid outside interests.

Even so, Judith Weir's "I Broke Off a Golden Branch," at the end, made a neat counterintuitive traverse from playful slowness to worried speed.

The real jaw-dropper, however, is a brilliantly counterintuitive turn from Samuel L Jackson as Candie's insanely loyal house-servant, Stephen, a terrifying portrait of head-turned devotion that offers the film's most potentially radical element.