How Did A-Rod Get So Good?
…article by Tyler Kepner describes how Bobby Meacham, the Yankees’ new third-base coach, recalls seeing a young Alex Rodriguez approach the game. At the time, Meacham was a minor league…
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….
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…
…article by Tyler Kepner describes how Bobby Meacham, the Yankees’ new third-base coach, recalls seeing a young Alex Rodriguez approach the game. At the time, Meacham was a minor league…
Also: how does a comedian cope with tragedy? With Eugene Mirman….
You know the saying: “There are no shortcuts in life.” What if that saying is just wrong? In his new book Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math…
Beyond the immediate casualties, school shootings have costs — for survivors, and for the rest of us….
…Stone, Maxim) made that I should marvel at? Q: If you have to blame someone for Playboy‘s declining circulation rate, whom would you blame? A: George Bush? Yeah, let’s blame…
…of omnivorous, ever-present beast was perpetuated by Matt Taibbi in his 2010 Rolling Stone article, in which he dubbed the firm “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of…
…the other hand, the formula was not handed to us on stone tablets: humans, with all their imperfections, devised it. Using their system eliminates some forms of bias, but there…
Where does sentimental value come from? Why did Angela throw out her childhood journals? And would Mike wear Hitler’s sweater?…
…much. We could kill three birds with one stone by enacting a progressive consumption tax now and scheduling it for gradual phase-in once the economy returned to full employment. Families…
Also: why do we hoard? (Rebroadcast From Ep. 28)…
The quirky little grocery chain with California roots and German ownership has a lot to teach all of us about choice architecture, efficiency, frugality, collaboration and team spirit.
Also: Where is the line between acronyms, initialisms and gibberish?
He’s an economist who studies even weirder things than Steve. They discuss whether economics is the best of the social sciences, and why it’s a good idea to get a…
Tony Hsieh, the longtime C.E.O. of Zappos, was an iconoclast and a dreamer. Five years ago, we sat down with him around a desert campfire to talk about those dreams….
…deceives parents into thinking their children are being well-prepared for college. They take out loans, send Junior off to college where s/he sinks like a stone. Tragic. Q. I’ve read…
Dubner and Levitt answer reader questions in this first installment of the Think Like a Freak Book Club….
…other places (The New York Times, Slate, the Wall Street Journal), and Klinenberg even produced a hot soundtrack for Rolling Stone of the songs that accompany the “Going Solo” lifestyle….
The modern world overwhelms us with sounds we didn’t ask for, like car alarms and cell-phone “halfalogues.” What does all this noise cost us in terms of productivity, health, and…
We now have more access to TV, movies, and streaming entertainment than anytime in history. So what do we actually know about what all that screen time does to us?…
The filmmaker doesn’t want to be known only for his movies. He tells Steve why he considers himself a writer first, how it feels to be recognized for his role…
Cecilia Rouse, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, is as cold-blooded as any economist. But she admits that her profession would do well to focus on…
Also: How do you know if you have a “bad personality?”…
His childhood dream of playing in the N.B.A. led him to a career as a referee. Marc is one of the league’s top performers after over 20 seasons, but he…
(Photo: tacit requiem) A new working paper (gated) by Angus Deaton and Arthur A. Stone is called “Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children”:…
It may seem like winning a valuable diamond is an unalloyed victory. It’s not. It’s not even clear that a diamond is so valuable.
We’re on our beach week in Stone Harbor, NJ.? The town enforces tag-wearing on its wonderful beaches.? It’s $25 for a tag for the whole season, $12 for one week,…
