Friday Night Lights and the Teenage Virgin
…virgins. In 2007, the virgin percentage was still holding at 52 percent. (Mini-bleg: If you have an adolescent, what does he or she think is the percentage of graduating high…
…virgins. In 2007, the virgin percentage was still holding at 52 percent. (Mini-bleg: If you have an adolescent, what does he or she think is the percentage of graduating high…
Photo: ShuttrKing|KT We got tons of responses to our Bleg last week on how professors should incentivize classroom attendance. Thank you everyone for your suggestions, a few concerns kept coming…
…me repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: The Yale Book of Quotations has a large section of the most famous television catchphrases. The list is…
(Photo: Chelsea Gomez) My coauthor (and 16-year-old daughter) Antonia Ayres-Brown just published a piece in Slate about a project that started 5 years ago when we bleg’d Freakonomics readers to…
…them to sacrifice all of today’s pleasures for some future pie in the sky. So, here’s a bleg for Freaknation: If you had to choose your child’s discount rate, what…
Photo: vera46 The boy is entering fifth-grade, which concentrates on American history (finally!). And so we are road-tripping to Boston and then Philadelphia to see what we can see. As…
…her concerns, saying something to the effect of “He’ll be alright.” (Mini-bleg😕 was this a joke?)??But then Heigl calls out to the departing guest:? “You should walk home.” Readers of?SuperFreakonomics…
…the 22-year lease. (Mini bleg: Is this true? Do readers have any details on the dispute?) From the street, there is strong visual evidence that a quickie mart is not…
…animals, even if that devotion doesn’t seem to last into adulthood for most of us. (See, for instance, the dearth of interest in animals in this philanthropy bleg.) Can anyone…
I will be in Singapore soon — first visit — with only a little bit of spare time but I’d like to see and learn and do some worthwhile things….
We are starting to put together an anthology of posts from this blog, which we began in 2005, just before the publication of Freakonomics. It is a lot of fun…
(Photo: Victor1558) We are working on a short Freakonomics Radio piece about “the value of bosses,” derived from a new working paper of that name (abstract; PDF) by Edward Lazear,…