The man who wants America to “think harder” has parlayed his quixotic presidential campaign into front-runner status in New York’s mayoral election. And he has some big plans….
Does instinct trump expertise? Can playing poker improve your intuition? And why did Angela jump off of a moving trolley car?…
Organized labor hasn’t had this much public support in 50 years, and yet the percentage of Americans in a union is near a record low. A.F.L-C.I.O. president Liz Shuler tries…
In this special episode of No Stupid Questions, Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth discuss the consequences of seeing every glass as at least half-full….
The war on cigarettes has been fairly successful in some places. But 1 billion humans still smoke — so what comes next?
It’s impossible to say for sure, but the Lebanese do remarkably well. Why?
Palliative physician B.J. Miller asks: Is there a better way to think about dying? And can death be beautiful?…
…policies. Price does appear to be a policy lever through which state governments can alter the field composition of the workforce they are training with the public higher education system….
…beginning in the 1980s: We propose the rise of crack cocaine markets as an explanation for the end to the convergence in black-white educational outcomes beginning in the mid-1980s. After…
The dean of Yale’s School of Management grew up in a small village in Guyana. During his unlikely journey, he has researched video-gaming habits, communicable disease, and why so many…
How do kids learn about money? What’s the big problem with education? And who made Raiders of the Lost Ark?…
Trump says it would destroy us. Biden needs the voters who support it (especially the Bernie voters). The majority of millennials would like it to replace capitalism. But what is…
Palliative physician B.J. Miller asks: Is there a better way to think about dying? And can death be beautiful?…
Trump says it would destroy us. Sanders says it will save us. The majority of millennials would like it to replace capitalism. But what is “it”? We bring in the…
…accident statistics since the program was rolled out in 2008 seemed defensive – so I started to look up Connecticut statistics online. Having attended 2 hours of the training, I…
(Photo: Martin Lopatka) If you are the sort of person who worries that the U.S. is not producing enough college graduates with science degrees, it’s worth wondering exactly why that…
(Photo: USAG- Humphreys) When it comes to educational attainment, good intentions aren’t enough. New research, led by Liz Todd of Newcastle University, looks at schemes to increase the educational attainment…
…high school degree. In contrast, male college graduates most likely to go to college earned only 10% more than their non-college-educated counterparts. Brand and Xie observed a similar trend for…
…in general obtain a better education. The problem is that fees never cover average costs. Taxpayers in the net-receiving countries subsidize the education of net-sending countries’ students. I don’t see…
Levitt’s skepticism notwithstanding, it seems there may be a good reason for some people to get tattoos. David B. Wiseman, a psychologist, showed 128 undergraduate students photographs of tattooed and…
…and engineering students graduate able to “work hard” but cannot solve problems expertly and creatively? What would an educational system look like that took seriously the principles of deliberate practice?…
…who can’t get easy access to credit—who are most likely to raise their spending if they get the extra dollars. Education Policy: Perhaps folks think that forgiving educational loans will…
Ellen Wiebe is a physician who helps seriously ill patients end their lives in Canada, where assisted suicide is legal. Is death a human right?
He has been a lawyer, an instructor at the F.B.I. Academy, the owner of a frozen-yogurt chain, and a winner of the TV show Survivor. Today, Kwon works at Google,…
Richard Prum says there’s a lot that traditional evolutionary biology can’t explain. He thinks a neglected hypothesis from Charles Darwin — and insights from contemporary queer theory — hold the…
How psychologist Dan Gilbert went from high school dropout to Harvard professor, found the secret of joy, and inspired Steve Levitt’s divorce….
Stephen Dubner’s conversations with members of the San Francisco 49ers offense, recorded for Freakonomics Radio episode No. 350, part of the “Hidden Side of Sports” series….
Beyond the immediate casualties, school shootings have costs — for survivors, and for the rest of us….
The primatologist discusses the thrill of observing chimpanzees in the wild, the value of challenging orthodoxy, and why dying is her next great adventure….
