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…did he have at the show? “To eat,” he said, adding that in the past ten minutes, he’d packed away six months’ worth of shrimp and sushi. The feeding frenzy…
…did he have at the show? “To eat,” he said, adding that in the past ten minutes, he’d packed away six months’ worth of shrimp and sushi. The feeding frenzy…
…expected to contribute to their society. In fact, dominant male fairy wrens may punish delinquent citizens for up to 26 hours and vampire bats actually regurgitate meals to feed hungry…
…this blog has about 17,000 Twitter followers as of this writing, even though our Tweets are nothing more than an abbreviated RSS feed. Stone has helped create other social media…
…argue for sustainable, organic farming methods and worry about genetic seed biodiversity and dependence on foreign companies for seeds and other inputs. While organic farming is all the rage in…
Making fun of earmarked Congressional spending is easy, feel-good entertainment. In this regard Sen. John McCain‘s Twitter feed, in which he reels off outrageous examples of pork-barrel spending (we especially…
…has the following item: “He [Kipling] sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.” George Orwell,…
…are actually due to age, not sex. To construct a regression model, you feed in the variables that you think work in concert to affect your outcome — in this…
…feed, listen at the Times‘s podcast page or on Amazon.com. Friday’s blog installment was a Super Bowl edition, focusing on hard hits in the NFL. Coming soon on the blog:…
…noted, probably correctly, that “it would be better for the retailers of the city to buy off all the apple sellers.” Feed and clothe the poor vendors, he added, “but…
…1 podcast for the better part of two weeks; or subscribe to the RSS feed here.) In the meantime, here’s a preview — in which we visit Ira Glass, the…
…often rendered into animal feed, the process itself was comparatively efficient and innocuous. But then Mad Cow Disease arrived, leading the USDA to radically tighten rendering regulations. Today, it’s very…
…about “possible chronic problems caused by long-term exposure.” The report also recognized that the Organic Consumers Association claimed that collapses were not happening on organic bee operations. But it went…
…are Twitter-fied versions of our blog posts. But with so many of you now following this feed, should we be doing more? If so, what? Or what not? Or why?…
…we have doubled them since 1960. That means we can feed more people (9.3 billion versus 6.7 billion) in 2050 from a much smaller acreage than we do today. That…
…stuff, like distinguishing whether a page is in English or French. But if you feed it enough data, it can approximate whether an op-ed is “conservative” or “liberal” based on…
…also infected with Plasmodium falciparum. That means that mosquitoes that feed on infected gorillas could pass their parasites on to humans. It’s never been a problem in the past, probably…
…or organic eggs are less prone to S. Enteritidis.” Darrell Trampel, an Iowa State poultry diagnostician, agreed, telling Newsweek, “Even today, we find Salmonella Enteritidis on small organic farms-it’s not…
Podcast Freakonomics Radio Two Book Authors and a Microphone: Levitt, Dubner and other future guests help preview the new Freakonomics Radio. Download/Subscribe at iTunes » Subscribe to RSS feed Listen…
…major sins of commission. Making any of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent this year would be a mistake – we can’t afford it and it would feed the…
…some respects it was, yes, became a lot more sophisticated later on, but I think the major need at the time was really to feed the army. And finally, there’s…
…today). As for the blog itself: surely there will be some changes (we’ll return to a full RSS feed, for one), but much will stay the same. As always, we’re…
…the blog, the books, the movie, the radio project, etc. — under one roof. Welcome! A few blog upgrades: We have a full RSS feed again, so feel free to…
…the meat from the killed elephant could feed an African village (literally). I’m guessing (although I’m not sure I care, and he does not say this) that he also is…
…do something utterly drastic to shake things up. “What would I do?” People ask. “I have responsibilities, mouths to feed, mortgage to pay. You don’t get it.” Yes I do….
…short-lived — but will it, in this case, live long enough to power Obama through an election cycle? FWIW, if you’re looking for an interesting Twitter feed to follow about…
…is not radical. It is just providing feedback on the objectives that real policymakers have always had. There is also the caricature of Bentham’s ghost, gleefully celebrating the discovery of…
…predict flu activity. Now Google has released an amazing way to reverse engineer the process: Google Correlate. Just feed in your favorite weekly time series (or cross-state comparisons), and it…
…is new. None of this is unprecedented. To a security professional, most of it isn’t even interesting. And while national intelligence organizations and some criminal groups are organized, hacker groups…
…and the amount of garbage that comes across Twitter feeds makes that outlet of limited use to me. I’ve had reasonably good experiences with the Economist, Christian Science Monitor, and…
…for a second. Forget all about economics. We’re humans who feed families. How do we benefit? We buy stocks, which benefit from bubble behavior. We’re on the right side of…