[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…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/ce987fb1-f722-48d1-99e6-ab0d001b3f08/audio.mp3] (Photo: ornello_pics) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Season of Death.” The gist: Summertime brings far too many fatal accidents. But the numbers may surprise…
…can download the academic working paper here. The paper gives some theories why TV and autism might be linked, but the more interesting part of the paper is the data…
…commonplace today in business. A former student of mine named Ken Kovash, who now works at Mozilla, provides a nice example of how the simplest of experiments can provide answers…
…going to judge the strength of the association. The report’s phrasing suggests a strong association between the reading score outcome and all four of the underlying factors. But what you…
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…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/a0932c5a-97f7-49d8-86ee-ab0d001a3b34/audio.mp3] Photo Credit: Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “How Money Is March Madness?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media…
…the world, Radiohead has decided to go it alone for the release of their seventh album. As Time.com reported: [S]inger Thom Yorke told TIME, “I like the people at our…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/b3caf04c-5a6a-424e-b78d-ab0d001b5c43/audio.mp3] (Photo: vxla) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “What’s Wrong With Cash for Grades?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the…
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…
…has just released a new album. While $10,000 might sound like a lot to pay for a copy of the CD, at that price he will also go on rides…
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(Photo: methodshop.com) Hollywood is abuzz with reports that the tiny islands of Antigua and Barbuda may begin operating their own national versions of the Pirate Bay, where individuals can cheaply,…
…to pay for music than people who don’t. This seems to make digital bootleggers the music industry’s biggest customers. All the more reason for labels to stop suing them? [%comments]…
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.”…
…Coast Guard immediately afterwards. Suicide isn’t illegal in the U.S., and as a citizen of a country that prides itself on individual rights – what would you do? [poll id=”17″]…
…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…
…to Believe, and Storm Treasure all to not win the race. I have had my best gambling success in a long time betting on American Idol, also at Tradesports. You…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/3ffad0a1-4a81-404b-ab01-ab0d001aae74/audio.mp3] (Photo: Ken Hawkins) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “Free-conomics.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/43b4d44f-6625-43a2-8edb-ab0d001c2710/audio.mp3] Mitt Romney won big in New Hampshire, but his opponents are vowing to push on in South Carolina. Which means stepping up their pleas for cash. In an e-mail…
…The Fires explores the connection between a computer model that promised to revolutionize the New York Fire Department in the 1960s and 70s, and a subsequent series of devastating fires.[%comments]…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/65cf18d5-2282-4006-a633-ab0d001be947/audio.mp3] (Photo: Anna Fox) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “It’s Not the President, Stupid.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the…
…companies that participate in the Compact. And, perhaps more interestingly, you can look up which companies the Compact has expelled for non-compliance (and here’s an update of the expelled list)….
…Lake City to give a lecture at the University of Utah, and the student who drove me around was a very nice guy whose father is a dentist, and we…
In our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, “The Upside of Quitting,” we talk about strategic quitting. You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here. One…
…you need right on their web page. (On the right-hand side of the page there’s a link you can follow that lets you download a CSV file with the data…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/043d4702-62ed-441b-af3d-ab0d001bd58f/audio.mp3] (Photo: Argonne National Laboratory) Our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast is called “The Patent Gap.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/b5654708-d803-4619-9d10-ab0d001b97dd/audio.mp3] Are you bummed out that you might have to postpone retirement for financial reasons? Well, there may be a silver lining: it looks like retirement may be bad for…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/fe47469a-bcb3-45f1-9297-ab0d001ac34e/audio.mp3] (Photo: Philip Matarese) New York City’s subways and buses carry roughly seven million passengers a day, which goes a long way toward explaining why New Yorkers have one of…
