Climate-change capitalists.
The advice that’s haunted Dubner all his life.
George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton will respond to readers’ questions.
In this episode of Freakonomics Radio, we explore a way to make 1.1 million schoolkids feel like they have 1.1 million teachers.
Sulfur at the Athabasca oil sands mining facility.
A bitten 10-year-old understands it was “a freak thing.”
Identify this picture for some Freakonomics schwag.
Dubner plans a trip to Madrid.
Do high prices discourage unnecessary hoarding?
The economics of oxytocin.
Is it the end for offshore drilling?
Readers’ sports questions answered.
Revealed preferences in airplane dining.
Or are there broader forces at work?
Is the Journal’s new Greater New York section a direct assault on the Times’s metro section?
Bad songs will be featured on our next podcast.
A new position for relief pitchers.
Will anyone benefit from a salt ban?
Very, but the obstacles are significant.
Dubner acts as a signing witness for a new organ donor.
Researchers may be able to identify individual bacteria sources.
Probably not – it’s just not that big of an eruption.
A scholar finds no evidence of cannibalism among Donner Party members.
Will faking it make a cilantro-lover out of you?
Maternal health advocates.
Do you “fake it?” If so, you’re hardly alone. In this episode, you’ll hear how everyone from the President of the United States to a kosher-keeping bacon-lover lives in a state of fallen grace. All the time. And gets by.
A walk though the many angles at play.
The Freakonomics documentary gets a distributor.
Political science, climate science, and geoengineering.
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