Freakonomics Poll: Should You Give Your Kids the Company?
That’s the question we asked in our latest podcast and hour-long Freakonomics Radio special “The Church of Scionology.” You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the…
That’s the question we asked in our latest podcast and hour-long Freakonomics Radio special “The Church of Scionology.” You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the…
…people make so many of them. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) But recent news out of Italy seems to take the…
…from the invention of religion to new understandings of how we make decisions about the future. There’s a more extensive blog post with background research, photos, and links coming shortly….
…top of iPhone and Android app downloads disappeared from app stores on Sunday, though players who already have it apparently can keep on flying. …Although new players can no longer…
…over big ones? At least on the demand side? An ATM is hooked up to a pretty big and powerful computer. And yet the tiny computers we carry around in…
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…If you want to see how altruistic or charitable you are in the context of these games, the time has come: here’s where you can download a free app that…
Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast, “Unnatural Turkeys,” reveals the surprising origins of the 40 million turkeys that Americans are going to eat this Thanksgiving. You can download/subscribe at…
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[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/bdda1fbd-4dbb-455d-9288-ab0d001b2d2a/audio.mp3] If you work in an office, do you ever find yourself thinking that you could get more work done at home? That’s the question we address in our latest…
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…kids are autistic. I don’t mean to sound overly negative on this research. I applaud the authors for asking a daring hypothesis and gathering data to try to test it….
Our latest podcast is called “How Biased Is Your Media?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes or get the RSS feed.) It includes an interview with University of Chicago economist Matthew…
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…you’ to this decaying business model.” So how much will it cost you to download their newest album? Whatever you want to pay. Following other artists we’ve blogged about in…
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Every December, a British man named Tom Whitwell publishes a list of 52 things he’s learned that year. These fascinating facts reveal the spectrum of human behavior, from fraud and…
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, “The Folly of Prediction,” is built around the premise that humans love to predict the future, but are generally terrible at it. (You can download/subscribe…
If Josh Freese‘s music exhibits as much creativity as his marketing, he should have a hit record on his hands. Freese, who was part of Devo in a previous life,…
…or even freely, download the latest films and TV shows. The clincher: this will all be legal. How is that possible? Because the World Trade Organization says so. Let us…
We’ve written before about musicians giving away their work for free online. Now you can add Mike Skinner (a.k.a. The Streets) to the list. He’s giving away new songs using…
Stephen Dubner’s conversation with the C.E.O. of Microsoft, recorded for the Freakonomics Radio series “The Secret Life of a C.E.O.”…
…hand, would spend many hours tossing and turning as my brain would come up with a thousand and one things to ruminate over instead of journeying peacefully to the land…
Apparently, Jane Siberry doesn’t appreciate people calling attention to her website, which allows people to pay as they wish to download Siberry’s music. I liked the idea, and blogged about…
…the youth of America. Perhaps a bigger part has been exploiting the information at DialIdol. Somebody has set up a website where you download an automatic dialer and then send…
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast “Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone?” has a pretty obvious premise. You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed or read the transcript here….
…politics: money buys elections. But how true is that truism? That’s the question Kai Ryssdal and I tackle in our latest Marketplace podcast. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed,…
…consequences of overreliance on computer models in city planning: Joe Flood‘s The Fires explores the connection between a computer model that promised to revolutionize the New York Fire Department in…
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