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Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have…
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have…
Photo: That Guy Who’s Going Places Here’s a desperate bleg from a reader named Theo Bryan. (Send your own blegs here.) Hey, I am living with my stepfather and don’t…
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have…
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own — it needn’t have…
From a reader named Kevin O’Toole comes a bleg that needs input from people with experience in the realms of running, races, and maybe Olympic competition. (We tussled with Olympic…
…a boy’s toy or a girl’s toy?” Sometimes they don’t ask any toy question (because they have a one-size-fits-all toy). Already Been Blegged Here’s what Freakonomics readers have been blegging…
…simulated, for students to work on. These tasks would be organized by subject area or industry, such as computer science, mechanical engineering, journalism, marketing, web design, etc. Already Been Blegged…
…Lead Serviceability Architect” for IBM, writes with the following bleg (explained here; send your own request here) that in the kindest possible way gets to the core of the issue:…
…for the worse, but a lot of change. Maybe dealing with that will be a bleg for another day. In the meantime, please give your best strategic advice to D.J….
…know? Things I would be foolish to miss? The last time I posted a travel bleg (for Las Vegas), I was richly rewarded. Fingers crossed for this one — and…
…what to see, learn, eat, etc., would be most appreciated. And don’t forget to send along your own blegs. (For those who don’t know: bleg = begging on a blog.)…
A while back, we ran a bleg in which a reader needed help dividing up a loved one’s furniture and other property. Now a reader named M. writes with a…
Here’s the latest bleg request from Fred Shapiro, editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. You can find his past blegs here and you can send blegs of your own…
…superior, not an employee, so please think in both directions. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below. And send your own blegs to bleg [at] freakonomics [dot] com….
A reader named Chuck Amos writes: My bleg is for a list of reliable, unbiased, and intelligent news sources that present general information in a readable and user-friendly way. This…
(Hemera) This bleg comes from reader Wayne Smith, who asks for suggestions on which economic concepts are the most important for kids to learn: What topics do the Freakonomics readers…
…from a house that’s worth far less than his mortgage? Already Been Blegged Here’s what Freakonomics readers have been blegging for lately. How to Handicap a Multi-Race Challenge? Book-Club Questions…
…Samuel Johnson. Authors Uncovered Here are more quote authors Shapiro’s tracked down recently. More Quote Authors Uncovered Let Me Trace Your Quotes Answering Your Blegs For a Change H.F.Hunter asks…
Five weeks ago, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research…
A reader named Karisa Cloward, a school teacher, needs your help. Her dilemma calls to mind earlier blegs about roommates/rent and dividing up a loved one’s earthly goods. This fall…
Six weeks ago, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research…
Seven weeks ago, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research…
A reader named Gregory Riffe wants the Freakonomics blog readership to help solve a dilemma: I live in Michigan and like many other Michiganders, I like to go camping in…
Photo: iStockphoto We’ll be spending a couple of days this week in Washington, D.C. It’ll be my kids’ first trip. (They are 10 and 9.) Am looking for non-obvious things…
Photo: iStockphoto A reader who works as a research scientist but wishes his name to be kept anonymous — “to avoid any hate mail coming my way” — writes in…
Comstock In response to our call for blegs, a reader named Lisa Klink writes to ask your advice: I just started a job at the Red Cross teaching preparedness education….
It’s official: Freakonomics is going to be turned into a feature-length documentary film. It will be an omnibus format, with different stories within the film told by different directors. According…
I’m moving to New Orleans in a month (and continuing as editor of this blog from there). I’ve gotten mixed opinions about quality of life from people who live there,…
Freakonomics reader Presh Talwalkar, author of the Mind Your Decisions blog, wonders why there’s no holiday-gift guide for economists: I see many practical applications to such a list. It could…
My kids’ schools never stopped class to listen to President Bush‘s inauguration speech; but my sense in Connecticut is that many public and private schools stopped normally scheduled classes to…