Is Wikipedia Ghettoizing Female Writers?
…“Women Are Not Men” podcast, reported by Bourree Lam, about the relative scarcity of female editors on Wikipedia — and this followup post about females posing as males online to…
College tends to make people happier, healthier, and wealthier. But how?
College tends to make people happier, healthier, and wealthier. But how?
In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that’s not always a bad thing.
In many ways, the gender gap is closing. In others, not so much. And that’s not always a bad thing.
…show” thing before. Maeve Higgins, comedian and host of the podcast Maeve in America, just needs a tub full of peanut butter. Our real-time fact-checker is Bourree Lam, writer for…
Most people don’t enjoy the simple, boring act of putting money in a savings account. But we do love to play the lottery. So what if you combine the two,…
…MIT Media Lab, who would make a great spy… and maybe already has. Our real-time fact-checker is Bourree Lam, writer for The Atlantic.com and editor emeritus of a certain blog….
…“Women Are Not Men” podcast, reported by Bourree Lam, about the relative scarcity of female editors on Wikipedia — and this followup post about females posing as males online to…
…hard to build this site, especially Chad Troutwine, Nick Mason at ErroThree, Jeremy Dempster, Dwyer Gunn, and Bourree Lam. Thanks also to the folks at WNYC and Marketplace/American Public Media…
…material (TV and live appearances, movie clips, etc.); it’s all on our YouTube channel too. The driving force behind these upgrades is our awesome blog editor (and all-around MVP) Bourree…
…(Photo: Bourree Lam) I also ran into my old friend Nicky Dawidoff, a wonderful writer whose previous subjects range from ballplayer-spy Moe Berg to country music . He has been…
…producing, creating great graphics packages, etc., including: Phil Guidry, Brian Caruso, Mitchell Swartz, and the true MVP of all things Freakonomics these days, Bourree Lam. Thanks to all! …
…a trait that is normally associated with Chinese culture,” at least when I think about modern Chinese urban culture. I asked Freakonomics researcher Bourree Lam to weigh in on the…
…especially to our amazing production team: Suzie Lechtenberg, Katherine Wells, David Herman, Bourree Lam, Collin Campbell, and Chris Bannon. Congrats also to all the other winners. It is amazing how…
Doctors, chefs and other experts are much more likely than the rest of us to buy store-brand products. What do they know that we don’t?
Doctors, chefs, and other experts are much more likely than the rest of us to buy store-brand products. What do they know that we don’t?
Does the future of food lie in its past — or inside a tank of liquid nitrogen? Also: how anti-social can you be on a social network? This is a…
The left and the right blame each other for pretty much everything, including slanted media coverage. Can they both be right?
How much does the President of the United States really matter? And: where did all the hitchhikers go? A pair of “attribution errors.” This is a “mashupdate” of “How Much…
The “Power of Poop”: Since the beginning of civilization, we’ve thought that human waste was worthless at best, and often dangerous. What if we were wrong?…
Five things you don’t know about the N.F.L. labor standoff….
Bring on the Pain! It’s not about how much something hurts — it’s how you remember the pain. This week, lessons on pain from the New York City subway, the…
Do more expensive wines taste better? And: what does one little rodent in a salad say about a restaurant’s future? This is a “mashupdate” of “Do More Expensive Wines Taste…
What do a computer hacker, an Indiana farm boy, and Napoleon Bonaparte have in common? The past, present, and future of food science.
A commitment device forces you to be the person you really want to be. What could possibly go wrong?
It’s the banking tool that got millions of people around the world to stop wasting money on the lottery. So why won’t state and federal officials in the U.S. give…
A commitment device forces you to be the person you really want to be. What could possibly go wrong?
Turkey sex and chicken wings, selling souls and swapping organs, the power of the president and the price of wine: these are a few of our favorite things
The thrill of customization, via Pandora, and a radical new teaching method.