Is This the Answer to Hospital-Acquired Infections?
Researchers may be able to identify individual bacteria sources.
When Freakonomics.com was launched in 2005, it was essentially a blog (c’mon, blogs were a thing then!). The first Freakonomics book had just been published, and Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt wanted to continue their conversation with readers. Over time, the blog grew to have millions of readers, a variety of regular and guest writers, and it was hosted by The New York Times, where Dubner and Levitt also published a monthly “Freakonomics” column. The authors later collected some of the best blog writing in a book called When to Rob a Bank … and 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants. (The publisher rejected their original title: We Were Only Trying to Help. The publisher had also rejected the title Freakonomics at first, so they weren’t surprised.) While the blog has not had any new writing in quite some time, the entire archive is still here for you to read.
Researchers may be able to identify individual bacteria sources.
Researchers discover a mass of plastic garbage in the Atlantic Ocean.
Probably not – it’s just not that big of an eruption.
A scholar finds no evidence of cannibalism among Donner Party members.
What are the biggest mistakes sports decision-makers make?
A&F CEO gets paid $4 million to not use the company jet for his personal travel.
Anders Ericsson elected to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
What role should the rich play in solving our fiscal woes?
A walk though the many angles at play.
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