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A Bleg: Ideas for Radio Hong Kong?

…know? Things I would be foolish to miss? The last time I posted a travel bleg (for Las Vegas), I was richly rewarded. Fingers crossed for this one — and…




Our Daily Bleg: What to Do in Madrid?

…what to see, learn, eat, etc., would be most appreciated. And don’t forget to send along your own blegs. (For those who don’t know: bleg = begging on a blog.)…






Our Daily Bleg: Happy Meal Toys

…a boy’s toy or a girl’s toy?” Sometimes they don’t ask any toy question (because they have a one-size-fits-all toy). Already Been Blegged Here’s what Freakonomics readers have been blegging…



Our Daily Bleg: Who Are the Gas Siphoners?

A reader from Boston named Robert Veneman-Hughes writes in with a bleg request on a subject we’ve wondered about before here: gas siphoning. Here’s what I wrote not long ago…




Our Daily Bleg: British TV Only, Please

Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have…




Our Daily Bleg: Keep Your Hands Off My Ghana!

A reader named Karisa Cloward, a school teacher, needs your help. Her dilemma calls to mind earlier blegs about roommates/rent and dividing up a loved one’s earthly goods. This fall…




Our Daily Bleg: More Quote Authors Uncovered

…Samuel Johnson. Authors Uncovered Here are more quote authors Shapiro’s tracked down recently. More Quote Authors Uncovered Let Me Trace Your Quotes Answering Your Blegs For a Change H.F.Hunter asks…




Our Daily Bleg: A Real-Estate Dilemma

…from a house that’s worth far less than his mortgage? Already Been Blegged Here’s what Freakonomics readers have been blegging for lately. How to Handicap a Multi-Race Challenge? Book-Club Questions…












Our Daily Bleg: Let Me Trace Your Quotes

Image: Tall Chris Two weeks ago, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and…



A Freakonomics Film Bleg

It’s official: Freakonomics is going to be turned into a feature-length documentary film. It will be an omnibus format, with different stories within the film told by different directors. According…



Our Daily Bleg: The Old Roommate/Rent Dilemma

Conor Hunt, an I.T. consultant in Chicago, writes with a dilemma that, while common, seems to be always unsatisfactorily solved. Two friends — a merchandising analyst and a law student…



Time for the Kids? A Teaser and a Bleg

Today’s parents are spending?dramatically more time on childcare than their parents did.? What’s more, this rise has disproportionately occurred among those with the most education.? At least, that’s the conclusion…