Pop Culture Introspection, Part II: What Do Hip-Hop/Pop Song Mash-ups Teach Us?
…scream, ’til your lungs get sore Another example is the new smash hit “Payphone” by Maroon 5. Here are some of the lyrics to that song: Yeah, I, I know…
Daniel Ek, a 23-year-old Swede who grew up on pirated music, made the record labels an offer they couldn’t refuse: a legal platform to stream all the world’s music. Spotify…
…scream, ’til your lungs get sore Another example is the new smash hit “Payphone” by Maroon 5. Here are some of the lyrics to that song: Yeah, I, I know…
…at least to tuck it under their clothes. L.A.’s downtown jewelry district has been hit by a recent surge of smash-and-grab jobs, like this one caught on camera in June:…
…a couple derby girls put it: “[T]here‘s no laws in place – you don‘t even have to register your derby name – it‘s COURTESY. Ref might not see you smash…
…had it better. By nearly all accounts, the deregulation of the industry starting in the late 1970s has been a smash success. Since that time, airfares have dropped by more…
…than paying a la carte. And once you put people in a box of any sort, one of the first things they want to do is smash down the walls….
Once considered noble and heroic, pigeons are now viewed as an urban nuisance — one that costs cities millions of dollars a year. Zachary Crockett tosses some crumbs….
Do you get your principles from your parents — or in spite of them? Is there anything wrong with valuing conformity? And why doesn’t McDonald’s sell salads?…
Is it dangerous to live in the past? Why is Disney remaking all of its classic movies? And why does Angela get sentimental over a cup of soup and a…
Interest in houseplants has exploded in recent years. But what causes floral trends, and prices, to grow? Zachary Crockett sows a few seeds….
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals founder Ingrid Newkirk has been badgering meat-eaters, fur-wearers, and circus-goers for more than 40 years. For a woman who’s leaving her liver to…
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit…
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle….
Palliative physician B.J. Miller asks: Is there a better way to think about dying? And can death be beautiful?…
Palliative physician B.J. Miller asks: Is there a better way to think about dying? And can death be beautiful?…
In this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt speaks with the palliative physician B.J. Miller about modern medicine’s goal of “protecting a pulse at all costs.” Is…
By mid-century, 10 million people a year are projected to die from untreatable infections. Can Cassandra, an ethnobotanist at Emory University convince Steve that herbs and ancient healing are key…
…listen for hours to a story without a single image; he loves audio books and we’ve worked our way through an edition of Kipling’s The Jungle Book that has only…
The art market is so opaque and illiquid that it barely functions like a market at all. A handful of big names get all the headlines (and most of the…
In most countries, houses get more valuable over time. In Japan, a new buyer will often bulldoze the home. We’ll tell you why.
How using peer pressure — and good, old-fashioned shame — can push people to do the right thing.
From domestic abusers to former child soldiers, there is increasing evidence that behavioral therapy can turn them around.
…kill’?” It means that the greatest pleasure is going into the jungle and mastering the ability to hunt and survive without the help of masters who only pretend to guarantee…
…solution for all the world, you should immediately mistrust them. Q. If we know that a particular piece of jungle can only successfully sustain X number of animals, is there…
The academic psychologist Joseph Henrich brought the Ultimatum game to the Amazon jungle and found that the Maschiguenga people of southeastern Peru make decisions like economists: “[T]hey felt rejecting was…
…(see photo below); a Real Madrid match; a day trip to Toledo; the turtles in the train station’s jungle waiting area and other public art there (photos at left); and…
What’s more dangerous: a playground jungle gym or your office chair? As it happens, one in every 3,759 fatal accidental falls starts from a piece of playground equipment. You’re 85…
…to the law of the jungle? Whatever happened to letting people take the hit for their behavior? Isn’t that what your world is all about.” Portis, 42 years old and…
…or “What is the horniest animal in the jungle?” (I didn’t actually watch either of those videos, so you will have to watch yourself to find out the answers.) While…
…arrive. But I just love the exotic stuff so much better. I guess on some subconscious level I’ve decided that the thrill of camping on the jungle floor of the…
