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…whose name was writ in water.” Here’s a mini-bleg for the Freakonomics faithful: are there any other instances of a headstone’s text being “triggered by” (or even making reference to)…
…whose name was writ in water.” Here’s a mini-bleg for the Freakonomics faithful: are there any other instances of a headstone’s text being “triggered by” (or even making reference to)…
…her concerns, saying something to the effect of “He’ll be alright.” (Mini-bleg😕 was this a joke?)??But then Heigl calls out to the departing guest:? “You should walk home.” Readers of?SuperFreakonomics…
…me repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: The Yale Book of Quotations has a large section of the most famous television catchphrases. The list is…
…repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: The Yale Book of Quotations includes 140 well known advertising slogans. I would welcome suggestions of famous advertising slogans…
…Quotations. Let me repeat my “bleg” from that time, and ask again for suggestions: Enough with 21st-century movie lines. Let me now move on to 21st-century popular song lyrics. ……
…them to sacrifice all of today’s pleasures for some future pie in the sky. So, here’s a bleg for Freaknation: If you had to choose your child’s discount rate, what…
Photo: ShuttrKing|KT We got tons of responses to our Bleg last week on how professors should incentivize classroom attendance. Thank you everyone for your suggestions, a few concerns kept coming…
(Photo: Chelsea Gomez) My coauthor (and 16-year-old daughter) Antonia Ayres-Brown just published a piece in Slate about a project that started 5 years ago when we bleg’d Freakonomics readers to…
Photo: vera46 The boy is entering fifth-grade, which concentrates on American history (finally!). And so we are road-tripping to Boston and then Philadelphia to see what we can see. As…
(Photo: Victor1558) We are working on a short Freakonomics Radio piece about “the value of bosses,” derived from a new working paper of that name (abstract; PDF) by Edward Lazear,…
I will be in Singapore soon — first visit — with only a little bit of spare time but I’d like to see and learn and do some worthwhile things….
We are starting to put together an anthology of posts from this blog, which we began in 2005, just before the publication of Freakonomics. It is a lot of fun…