Our Daily Bleg: Book-Club Questions Needed
A reader named Jacquilynne Schlesier writes: My book club is reading Freakonomics as our selection of the month and we’re meeting on Wednesday. It’s my selection, so I’m responsible for…
A reader named Jacquilynne Schlesier writes: My book club is reading Freakonomics as our selection of the month and we’re meeting on Wednesday. It’s my selection, so I’m responsible for…
Image: Tall Chris Two 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…
Conor Hunt, an I.T. consultant in Chicago, writes with a dilemma that, while common, seems to be always unsatisfactorily solved. Two friends — a merchandising analyst and a law student…
A reader named Jeremy writes in with a pressing question that is almost ideally suited for the readership of this blog. Please help him. I have been participating in a…
A reader named Ben Muschel of Flushing, N.Y. (that’s where Citi Field is), writes in with a question that he admits is trivial: I often enjoy getting sodas from 7-11….
Today’s parents are spending?dramatically more time on childcare than their parents did.? What’s more, this rise has disproportionately occurred among those with the most education.? At least, that’s the conclusion…
From a reader named Josh Slavin comes an interesting request for help: My friend was just telling me about a recent dream in which she was naked at a party…
I am heading to Beijing today (first time), and will have roughly 36 hours of free time. Eager to hear suggestions of things to see, do, avoid, eat, etc. Thanks…
(iStockphoto) We’re working on a Freakonomics Radio piece about booing — when it happens (and doesn’t), who does it (and doesn’t), what it means, etc. We’re looking for good stories…
We are working on a Freakonomics Radio episode about the management-consulting profession. It was inspired in part by a Robin Hanson blog post about the industry and the fact that…
Three 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…
An upcoming episode of Freakonomics Radio will feature a short segment about how hard it is to find a song you like on the radio. This will be illustrated by…
We recently published a post about the dramatic decline in U.S. fire deaths over the past century. A reader named Tricia Hurlbutt writes in with a related challenge: I work…
Not long ago, we made a Freakonomics Radio podcast asking whether the NFL might someday sell ad space on its jersey fronts, as soccer teams around the world already do….
In June, the first of our Freakonomics Radio programs will hit the public-radio airwaves. (Until then, we’re putting out a a podcast and a recurring Marketplace segment.) In conjunction with…
Photo: Comstock A reader named Patrick Nash needs your advice: My friend and I have developed a cutting-edge technology for social media. There are other similar technologies out there for…
(Digital Vision) Art Wright, a professor*, writes in to say: I have this problem: I am course-planning for the fall term right now, and I’m trying to figure out the…
Photo: Abode of Chaos I’m starting to think about my annual list, run by the Associated Press, of the top 10 most notable quotations of the year. By “notable” I…
Hi everyone. We’re working on a Freakonomics Radio episode about — sorry, I’m going to be cryptic here — a person who expected to get/use something for free but was…
Want to be part of an episode of Freakonomics Radio? We’re working on a podcast about names and we want to hear from readers and listeners about their own names…
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back, but this time he answers your quotation blegs. If you have a bleg of your…
…safety to your least favorite songs to settling a loved one’s estate without acrimony. You can leave your blegs in the comments section below or send them to bleg [at]…
…in the casino. Thanks, Chris. And thanks again to all of you for the generous responses to my Vegas bleg. Keep your eyes open here for our upcoming bleg project….
Next week, after more than four years in hardcover, Freakonomics is being published in the U.S. in paperback. We’ve been asked to go on TV to talk about the effects…
We recently ran a bleg about dealing with too much data. That bleg prompted the following note from a reader named Geoff Barry: I had a thought on when it…
…immediately display certain incriminating pictures taken from the drive. As an initial matter, do cab drivers really have Kindles in their cabs? Here’s a mini-bleg: please add a comment if…
…repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: Now I turn to film quotes, which have probably supplanted literary quotations in cultural resonance. The American Film Institute…
…animals, even if that devotion doesn’t seem to last into adulthood for most of us. (See, for instance, the dearth of interest in animals in this philanthropy bleg.) Can anyone…
…the 22-year lease. (Mini bleg: Is this true? Do readers have any details on the dispute?) From the street, there is strong visual evidence that a quickie mart is not…
…virgins. In 2007, the virgin percentage was still holding at 52 percent. (Mini-bleg: If you have an adolescent, what does he or she think is the percentage of graduating high…