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Up-Market Animal Food

…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…



Monkeys Pay Taxes Too

…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…




Will the "Green Revolution" Ever Hit Africa?

…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…



Do Earmarks Matter?

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…



Quotes Uncovered: Violence and Enemies

…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,…



Men or Women: Who Travel More?

…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…



Freakonomics Radio an iTunes Hit

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:…



Depression Apples

…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…




Roadkill Ecology

…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…




100,000 Twitter Followers

…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?…




Let Google Decide for You

…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…




Unscrambling the Egg Disaster

…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…



The Return of Freakonomics Radio

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…





Yes, This Blog Is Leaving NYTimes.com

…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…



Welcome to the New Freakonomics.com

…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…




Ten Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job

…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….




The Least Radical Case for Happiness Economics

…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…



Google's New Correlation Mining Tool: It Works!

…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…




Our Daily Bleg: Looking for the Best Online News

…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…