Watt's Next: Your Thoughts
…tipping point. — Zachary Possibly. But though electric cars are currently considerably more expensive than comparable internal combustion models, we are confident that to save the environment the average American…
…tipping point. — Zachary Possibly. But though electric cars are currently considerably more expensive than comparable internal combustion models, we are confident that to save the environment the average American…
…be the front-runner in the online TV space. What happened? Tell us about a few tipping points, or lucky breaks, or wondrous negotiations. 2. Tell us a bit about ad…
…to be seen whether more or fewer gun deaths will result from a political process that in recent years: 1) engineered the appointment of a tipping-point Supreme Court vote aimed…
…Could this price-discriminating advertisement in fact be construed as racial discrimination? If there’s a plausible argument to be made that tipping should be outlawed because blacks systematically earn less than…
…Georgia, New Jersey, Missouri, and South Dakota. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, called the results a “bright spot” and a “tipping point.” “For the first time in a generation,…
A New York guide to holiday tipping. Researchers discover the surefire way to win at Rock, Paper, Scissors. (Earlier) An economic case for predicting no recession. Monkeys exhibit the same…
…and The Tipping Point respectively). Those are the two most interesting and entertaining books I have read in the last five years. And his New Yorker stuff is incredible. In…
…economics is not exactly firm, because its tone — the voice of Levitt’s co-author, writer Stephen J. Dubner — is incredibly friendly and approachable. Like Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point…
…ads; I wonder if the commenter above and others are doing their web tipping on this site too.) The big issues here are a) how well old media like the…
…for the first time yesterday on Tipping. Loved all the speaking clips and analysis. HATED the musical interludes so much that we (my husband, kids and I) cannot fathom ever…
…don’t have to collect sales tax from customers. The online sales tax debate has been heating up for some time now. Does New York’s move perhaps mark a tipping point?…
…Outliers: The Story of Success. Gladwell writes beautifully, and I like this book even more than Blink or The Tipping Point. In story after story, he destroys the simplicity of…
…happened? Tell us about a few tipping points, or lucky breaks, or wondrous negotiations. It is very understandable that so many journalists and respected bloggers felt that Hulu would have…
What Hitwise can say about mortgage rates. (Earlier) Will the housing bubble lead to baby bundles? (Earlier) What will become of the “Tipping Point”? Climate change and impending doom? (Earlier)…
…dialed a “How’s My Driving?” number. Q: In your book you mention a tipping point where online gossip spills over into an epidemic — where is that point and how…
…concerns how the Knicks reacted the Houston’s initial offer. The Knick error was is in tipping their hand. Newspapers widely reported that Houston was poised to offer Lin “four years…
The debut of a live game show from Freakonomics Radio, with judges Malcolm Gladwell, Ana Gasteyer, and David Paterson….
John Urschel was the only player in the N.F.L. simultaneously getting a math Ph.D. at M.I.T. But after a new study came out linking football to brain damage, he abruptly…
Bapu tries to stump master clinician Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal with a medical mystery….
We tend to think of tragedies as a single terrible moment, rather than the result of multiple bad decisions. Can this pattern be reversed? We try — with stories about…
The debut of a live game show from Freakonomics Radio, with judges Malcolm Gladwell, Ana Gasteyer and David Paterson….
Dubner and Levitt answer reader questions in this first installment of the Think Like a Freak Book Club….
Is it really in a restaurant’s best interest to give customers free bread or chips before they even order?
It facilitates crime, bribery, and tax evasion – and yet some governments (including ours) are printing more cash than ever. Other countries, meanwhile, are ditching cash entirely. And if Star…
Recorded live in San Francisco. Guests include the keeper of a 10,000-year clock, the co-founder of Lyft, a pioneer in male birth control, a specialist in water security, and a…
Giving up can be painful. That’s why we need to talk about it. Today: stories about glitchy apps, leaky paint cans, broken sculptures — and a quest for the perfect…
The legendary venture capitalist believes the same intuition that led him to bet early on Google can help us reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. But Steve wonders why his…
He’s been an Arctic scientist, a sports journalist, and is now a best-selling author of science books. His latest, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, makes the argument…
Levitt and Dubner answer your questions about driving, sneezing, and ladies’ nights. Plus a remembrance of Levitt’s sister Linda.
Among O.E.C.D. nations, the U.S. has one of the highest rates of child poverty. Until recently, it looked as if Washington was about to change that. But then … Washington…
