Rocco Landesman Answers Your Broadway Questions
…judge the success of a show? A: Critical response and financial reward. Q: Do you lose more sleep when you first started producing than you do now? A: Yes. At…
Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracted. We talk to whistleblowers, reformers, and a…
…judge the success of a show? A: Critical response and financial reward. Q: Do you lose more sleep when you first started producing than you do now? A: Yes. At…
We often look to other countries for smart policies on education, healthcare, infrastructure, etc. But can a smart policy be simply transplanted into a country as culturally unusual (and as…
Can long-term relationships do more harm than good? Where is the line between intimacy and codependence? And should we all try to be more like Mike’s parents?…
Three leading researchers from the Mount Sinai Health System discuss how ketamine, cannabis and ecstasy are being used (or studied) to treat everything from severe depression to addiction to PTSD….
Most of us feel we face more headwinds and obstacles than everyone else — which breeds resentment. We also undervalue the tailwinds that help us — which leaves us ungrateful…
As Kevin Kelly tells it, the hippie revolution and the computer revolution are nearly one and the same.
What’s the best way to carry out random acts of kindness? What’s wrong with making an “Irish exit”? And why is Mike secretly buying lottery tickets?…
Also: Why do so many people feel lost in their 20s?…
Thanks to decades of work by airlines and regulators, plane crashes are nearly a thing of the past. Can we do the same for cars? (Part 2 of “Freakonomics Radio…
…of funds down. Trading I was trading for several hedge funds. But about once a month I would get so stressed I wouldn’t be able to sleep and I would…
…R) Sleep. Don’t buy into the 20 hours a day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind. S) Exercise. Same as above….
The U.N.’s World Happiness Report — created to curtail our unhealthy obsession with G.D.P. — is dominated every year by the Nordic countries. We head to Denmark to learn the…
Boris Johnson — mayor of London, biographer of Churchill, cheese-box painter and tennis-racket collector — answers our FREAK-quently Asked Questions.
What do Renaissance painting, civil-rights movements, and Olympic cycling have in common? In each case, huge breakthroughs came from taking tiny steps. In a world where everyone is looking for…
How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on “dream patients” who aren’t representative of a…
…study found that actually eating cheese helps you go to sleep. But be warned, eating different types of cheeses leads to different types of dreams. The pungent blue Stilton resulted…
What’s the difference between willpower and eagerness? Is there a lifehack that can make you zestier? And could it help Stephen improve his golf game?…
Are there downsides to “personality plagiarism”? Why did no one buy the Crayola Crayon Carver? And should Stephen feel bad for copying Angela’s email signature?…
Neuroscientists still have a great deal to learn about the human brain. One recent M.R.I. study sheds some light, finding that a certain kind of storytelling stimulates enormous activity across…
…now largely gone. My body just feels extraordinarily tired. I tried going to sleep Thursday night without any cold medications. Sometime in the wee hours of Friday morning, I started…
…my time particularly valuable. I do however have a lot of hobbies and friends, and I love to sleep 8 hours a day. But since time was being treated as…
…US alone, we kill 5 million domestic pets a year – and as taxpayers we spend $2 Billion rounding them up, housing them, and putting them to sleep. We offer…
When Freakonomics co-authors Steve Levitt and Stephen Dubner first met, one of them hated the other. Two decades later, Levitt grills Dubner about asking questions, growing the pie, and what…
…did you and your friends sit around drinking chocolate milk? If not, did everybody sleep over that night? And let’s be honest: how many times have you climbed behind the…
Victoria Groce is one of the best trivia contestants on earth. She explains the structure of a good question, why she knits during competitions, and how to memorize 160,000 flashcards….
Also: is a little knowledge truly a dangerous thing?
…a sleep-deprived, bumbling academic. On the other hand, if you don’t intensively interrogate or punish people who successfully sneak through security with dangerous weapons, what is the point of the…
We learn how to be less impatient, how to tell fake news from real, and the simple trick that nurses used to make better predictions than doctors. Journalist Manoush Zomorodi…
Sure, markets generally work well. But for some transactions — like school admissions and organ transplants — money alone can’t solve the problem. That’s when you need a market-design wizard…
