Our Daily Bleg: Happy Meal Toys
…promotions that change every few weeks against the difficulties of training and wanting to keep the line moving. But the lawyer in me also notes that several states prohibit sex…
…promotions that change every few weeks against the difficulties of training and wanting to keep the line moving. But the lawyer in me also notes that several states prohibit sex…
…over 5,000 private airports in the U.S., compared to 500 commercial airports. New pricing models and very light jets are lowering the barrier to entry. We’re doing our bit with…
…prediction accuracy bar that is 10% better than what Cinematch can do on the same training data set. (Accuracy is a measurement of how closely predicted ratings of movies match…
…than my goal. While most runners hit “the wall” at the 30 km point, I was in trouble from the 25 km point onward — probably due to insufficient training…
In 2016, David Cameron held a referendum on whether the U.K. should stay in the European Union. A longtime Euroskeptic, he nevertheless led the Remain campaign. So what did Cameron…
With abortion on the Nov. 5 ballot, we look back at Steve Levitt’s controversial research about an unintended consequence of Roe v. Wade….
…seeing or hearing her name mentioned by an economist. She is a political scientist, both by training and her career — one of the most decorated political scientists around. So…
…are also safety professionals. Airlines teach us in training not to accept tips unless from a little old lady so as not to hurt her feelings. I would like to…
…were plenty of players around doing individual workouts.) Hey, Sanchez, I’m wide open! Dubner prepping for a Football Freakonomics shoot at the N.Y. Jets’ training facility in Florham Park, N.J….
…carried too many undecideds for good polling (a function of polling techniques) and were completed too far from Election Day; several also were of undetermined quality on other methodological fronts….
…to be the only economist. Frequently, the one economist will say things that make a lot of sense that no one else would ever come up with. When I am…
…receive formal, specific training in how to land without landing gear. There’s little technique involved, other than to meet the ground as slowly, smoothly, and with the wings as level…
What happens when the most disturbing ideas are also the best?
…the best-sellers. I guess it’s easier to stay afloat when you’re not competing against all the big American political books (George Tenet, Barack Obama, etc.). 4. The food here is…
…a patch of skin, or, even better, the tongue, for eyes when it comes to “seeing.” With a day of training, the people in these trials can see as well…
…per square foot per year. By comparison, my company pays $25 for a second- or third-tier building in Bellevue, Wash. The good buildings in Bellevue are $40; downtown Seattle commands…
Sure, we all want to make good personal decisions, but it doesn’t always work out. That’s where “temptation bundling” comes in.
People who sleep better earn more money. Now all we have to do is teach everyone to sleep better.
Photo: John Lewis This is a cross-post from James Altucher‘s blog Altucher Confidential. His previous appearances on the Freakonomics blog can be found here. I realized I had been a…
The White House is hosting an anti-terror summit next week. Summits being what they are, we try to offer some useful advice.
…also said I would give a prize to the best answer other than competitive eating. There were many great examples given, ranging from mountain climbing to female marathon running to…
…and he’s back now with another round. You can leave new questions for him in the comments section below. Q. Steve, what airline would you not fly? — Dave Ashton…
…cannabis was legalized, he jumped into that too — and the first few years were lucrative. But now? It turns out that growing, processing, and selling weed is more complicated…
…of markets. Of course this requires liquidity, and a certain faith in markets. Anyhow, until that dream comes true, we are doing this the simple way: running contests! Here is…
…solution toward its best implementation, the limitations of the Pioneer’s original insight become apparent.? In this way, the Tweakers help to prepare the ground for the next Pioneer – someone…
…later discovered, engineers had designed the reactors to be “idiot-proof.” Their assumption was that redundancy could be so complete that it wouldn’t matter whether or not anyone really understood the…
…about decision-making. The journalist Michael Lewis told the Kahneman-Tversky story in a 2016 book called The Undoing Project. In this episode, Lewis explains why they had such a profound influence….
The junior U.S. Senator from New Jersey thinks bipartisanship is right around the corner. Is he just an idealistic newbie or does he see a way forward that everyone else…
The market for gustatory pain is surprisingly competitive. Zachary Crockett feels the burn….
(Comstock) I got in trouble earlier this summer when a teacher caught me surfing the Internet during a “Safe Driving Practices” class I had to attend so that my son…
