(Photo Credit: TheDigitalWay/Pixabay) Our latest Freakonomics Radio episode is called “Earth 2.0: What Would Our Economy Look Like? (Earth 2.0 Series)”. (You can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or...
Around 7,000 languages are spoken on Earth 1.0. (Photo: Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr) Our latest Freakonomics Radio episode is called “What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series).” (You can...
...baggage and global bureaucracy on Earth 1.0 don’t exist and we try to come up with the optimal language plan for Earth 2.0. McWHORTER: I would say that an ideal,...
...who service the International Space Station (ISS). Mercury astronauts were the first to photograph Earth from space with hand-held cameras. Earth scientists in orbit on the ISS may view aspects...
...dignity. So what would Sachs do it we made him chief economist of Earth 2.0? SACHS:You don’t want to really create Earth 2.0 in the way that you’ve stated because...
...the facts surrounding global warming. Take the following true/false quiz to test your knowledge of the science, economics, and technology of global warming. Global-warming science questions: 1. The Earth has...
Photo: Eric Etheridge The SuperFreakonomics chapter on global warming generated plenty of controversy and debate about the pros and cons of geoengineering the earth. If all that attention piqued your...
...become a mainstay, we may be trading one dependence for another that is even more troubling. Ninety-five percent of the world’s output of rare-earth metals today comes from one country:...
...that?” To find out more, check out the podcasts from which this hour was drawn: “Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)” and “What Would Be...
...41:04 300 Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series) There are 7,000 languages spoken on Earth. What are the costs — and benefits — of our...