Announcing the Winners of Our Aptonym Contest
…and the funeral home is called (drumroll, please), ‘Eikenberry Eddy.’” (Honorable mention in the Six Feet Under category to the reader who writes this: “In my hometown [Amarillo, TX], there…
What do dogs know about their own names? And is there any science about what to name them? Alexandra talks to a researcher with some answers, and takes a walk…
He’s a law professor with a Ph.D. in economics and a tendency for getting into fervid academic debates. Over 20 years ago, he and Steve began studying the impact of…
…and the funeral home is called (drumroll, please), ‘Eikenberry Eddy.’” (Honorable mention in the Six Feet Under category to the reader who writes this: “In my hometown [Amarillo, TX], there…
…under certain conditions, but that: 1) the decision to cancel and refund was up to the insurance company, not Orbitz; and 2) if the trip was completed no refund would…
…published by our publisher and, the last time I checked Amazon.com, was paired with Freakonomics in a discount deal: While Number Freaking is the closest there is to an outright…
…is the product I want!” Then all decisions come from that. With stockpickr.com I was obsessed with putting in new features. But every single new feature was something that had…
…183), but I can’t underscore it enough.? Getting fined and getting embarrassed socially for missing a commitment is a powerful one-two combo. My commitment actually took one step more than…
Also: is it better to be a thinker, a doer, or a charmer?
Also: How can you become a more curious person?…
…Krugman. Photo from Economist.com This photo posted on Economist.com (from Agence France-Presse) makes me wish I were better at reading body language. I’m going to shamelessly rip off The New…
(Photo: Alex Murphy) The following is a cross-post from our Football Freakonomics project at NFL.com. The Super Bowl has by now become such an institution – it’s practically a second…
…only No. 5 on the best-blogs list — whereas in past years, Time.com ranked us No. 6 and No. 8 overall. So it would appear we are fading fast ……
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal about online lending reports that Zopa, a British person-to-person lending market, is starting operations in the U.S. It will join, among others, Prosper.com,…
…perceive about our face. Q. How can we (individually and corporately) resist this economic force, and how can we best train our children to resist it? – Quin A….
…my computer, for free, thanks to Hulu.com. Hulu is a likely game-changer for TV, an ad-supported site with, as of a few days ago, programming from three of the four…
…Pittsburgh (17.95) San Francisco (17.89) Detroit (15.13) Baltimore (12.83) Atlanta (7.75) New York Giants (6.76) Cincinnati (-5.42) Denver (-19.67) To me, Houston is the big surprise there. (What PRD doesn’t…
Also: is it better to “go with the wind” or to “be the wind”?
We take it for granted that, when people are acutely ill, they should be in the hospital. Is there a better way?…
…bring their companies to the brink of ruin (and, who then run crying to you for help). Before I begin, I should tell you that I write this letter under…
…crap coming his way, literally. Because when you lift the tail feathers, if the hen decides to defecate, well, it’s coming his direction. So that would not be a fun…
…testing delivery to neighborhood 7 Elevens for pickup. The infrastructure investment these companies are making must be incredible, just to bring me cheaper toilet paper. Keep up the good work….
…at the bargaining table in order to bring around more equality in earnings. What do you think of a situation where unions become so powerful that they force companies to…
Yet another reason to blame your parents for pretty much everything.
…thought it was going okay. We had just seen a movie, and were on our way back to her place, when she noticed I was carrying around Freakonomics (I was…
Photo: Piez In his discussion of the Siege of Paris from 1870-71, David McCullough in The Greater Journey discusses the path of meat prices. One observer “considered cats ‘downright good…
Photo: kevin dooley As part of our ongoing obsession with improving public education, we bring you a new study from Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia Business School and Cecilia Speroni,…
…the sick family a mini-Brady Bunch structure – a recently married husband and wife who each bring to the marriage a child from a previous relationship?? And what does this…
Could a lack of sleep help explain why some people get much sicker than others?
…morally remiss are tobacco companies or fast food restaurants? Whether it’s cigarettes or food loaded with trans fats, society has essentially deemed that when it comes to things that aren’t…
