Our Daily Bleg: Naked Dreams in Other Cultures?
From a reader named Josh Slavin comes an interesting request for help: My friend was just telling me about a recent dream in which she was naked at a party…
From a reader named Josh Slavin comes an interesting request for help: My friend was just telling me about a recent dream in which she was naked at a party…
A reader named Jeremy writes in with a pressing question that is almost ideally suited for the readership of this blog. Please help him. I have been participating in a…
I’m moving to New Orleans in a month (and continuing as editor of this blog from there). I’ve gotten mixed opinions about quality of life from people who live there,…
Freakonomics reader Presh Talwalkar, author of the Mind Your Decisions blog, wonders why there’s no holiday-gift guide for economists: I see many practical applications to such a list. It could…
(iStockphoto) We’re working on a Freakonomics Radio piece about booing — when it happens (and doesn’t), who does it (and doesn’t), what it means, etc. We’re looking for good stories…
I am heading to Beijing today (first time), and will have roughly 36 hours of free time. Eager to hear suggestions of things to see, do, avoid, eat, etc. Thanks…
My kids’ schools never stopped class to listen to President Bush‘s inauguration speech; but my sense in Connecticut is that many public and private schools stopped normally scheduled classes to…
We are working on a Freakonomics Radio episode about the management-consulting profession. It was inspired in part by a Robin Hanson blog post about the industry and the fact that…
A reader named Ben Muschel of Flushing, N.Y. (that’s where Citi Field is), writes in with a question that he admits is trivial: I often enjoy getting sodas from 7-11….
A reader named Jacquilynne Schlesier writes: My book club is reading Freakonomics as our selection of the month and we’re meeting on Wednesday. It’s my selection, so I’m responsible for…
Not long ago, we made a Freakonomics Radio podcast asking whether the NFL might someday sell ad space on its jersey fronts, as soccer teams around the world already do….
Three 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 more recent research…
Hi everyone. We’re working on a Freakonomics Radio episode about — sorry, I’m going to be cryptic here — a person who expected to get/use something for free but was…
Photo: Comstock A reader named Patrick Nash needs your advice: My friend and I have developed a cutting-edge technology for social media. There are other similar technologies out there for…
Want to be part of an episode of Freakonomics Radio? We’re working on a podcast about names and we want to hear from readers and listeners about their own names…
An upcoming episode of Freakonomics Radio will feature a short segment about how hard it is to find a song you like on the radio. This will be illustrated by…
Photo: Abode of Chaos I’m starting to think about my annual list, run by the Associated Press, of the top 10 most notable quotations of the year. By “notable” I…
In June, the first of our Freakonomics Radio programs will hit the public-radio airwaves. (Until then, we’re putting out a a podcast and a recurring Marketplace segment.) In conjunction with…
(Digital Vision) Art Wright, a professor*, writes in to say: I have this problem: I am course-planning for the fall term right now, and I’m trying to figure out the…
We recently published a post about the dramatic decline in U.S. fire deaths over the past century. A reader named Tricia Hurlbutt writes in with a related challenge: I work…
…safety to your least favorite songs to settling a loved one’s estate without acrimony. You can leave your blegs in the comments section below or send them to bleg [at]…
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back, but this time he answers your quotation blegs. If you have a bleg of your…
…in the casino. Thanks, Chris. And thanks again to all of you for the generous responses to my Vegas bleg. Keep your eyes open here for our upcoming bleg project….
Next week, after more than four years in hardcover, Freakonomics is being published in the U.S. in paperback. We’ve been asked to go on TV to talk about the effects…
…immediately display certain incriminating pictures taken from the drive. As an initial matter, do cab drivers really have Kindles in their cabs? Here’s a mini-bleg: please add a comment if…
We recently ran a bleg about dealing with too much data. That bleg prompted the following note from a reader named Geoff Barry: I had a thought on when it…
…repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: Now I turn to film quotes, which have probably supplanted literary quotations in cultural resonance. The American Film Institute…
…whose name was writ in water.” Here’s a mini-bleg for the Freakonomics faithful: are there any other instances of a headstone’s text being “triggered by” (or even making reference to)…
…repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: The Yale Book of Quotations includes 140 well known advertising slogans. I would welcome suggestions of famous advertising slogans…
…Quotations. Let me repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: Enough with 21st-century movie lines. Let me now move on to 21st-century popular song lyrics. ……