An Algorithm that Can Predict Weather a Year in Advance
…though we love to predict things — we’re generally terrible at it. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) But there is one…
…though we love to predict things — we’re generally terrible at it. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) But there is one…
…people make so many of them. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) But recent news out of Italy seems to take the…
In our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, “The Upside of Quitting,” we talk about strategic quitting. You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here. One…
…all the genocides, all the man-made famines, you get to about 3 percent. Here’s where you can find Marketplace on the radio near you. You can read the transcript here….
…the schools ranked from 20 to 50, none do. A new paper from a pair of Wharton economists examines why this is. Wharton, it should be noted, has grade non-disclosure,…
…cheating Chicago teachers. In the latest Freakonomics Marketplace podcast (you can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript below),…
…on Marketplace podcast (you can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript), we examine the side effects that elections…
…iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here. So, 100 percent of commercially raised turkeys in the U.S. (save for heritage turkeys) are born from artificial insemination. But…
…read the transcript.) Americans are expected to eat more than 40 million of the big birds this month for Thanksgiving, so we asked the same question everyone’s thinking: where do…
…from the Apollo on the podcast (download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here) and check out the photos here. [slideshow] (All photos by Diana Huynh)…
…give. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript.) In Australia, Dick Smith’s electronics empire has afforded him enough success…
…get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) One big historical factor: Prohibition. Restaurants that relied on alcohol sales closed their doors, often replaced by diners, soda fountains, and…
…the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript.) In his forthcoming book An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies, economist Tyler Cowen…
…(Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript.) The risks of driving drunk are well-established; it’s an incredibly dangerous thing to…
…listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript.) In a paper that tried to isolate the effect of spending in campaigns, here’s what Steve Levitt found: LEVITT:…
No, Brian Williams is not Walter Cronkite. Cory Doctorow: “The Coming War on General Computation” (video; transcript; interesting!) Whole Foods has been thriving in a down economy. Open-sourcing the scientific…
…Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript.) We figured that…
…the transcript.) It’s about workplace morale and the measurement thereof. This segment was largely crowd-sourced from Freakonomics blog readers — so: thanks! It began with a blog post in which…
…media player above, or read the transcript here.) The gist: it’s time to admit that the U.S. economy doesn’t have a commander-in-chief. Over the years, we’ve regularly visited the question…
…player above, or read the transcript here.) It centers around a new working paper called “Why Don’t Women Patent?” by Jennifer Hunt, Jean-Philippe Garant, Hannah Herman, and David J. Munroe….
…the media player above, or read the transcript here.) The central facts: between 94 and 99 percent of burglar-alarm calls turn out to be false alarms, and false alarms make…
…RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) The short answer: yes. That’s the finding of Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim from…
…“A Rose By Any Other Distance.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) With Mother’s Day coming…
…or read the transcript here.) The Great Recession has put a lot of retirement plans on hold, often at the behest of governments who can’t afford to pay pensions. Germany,…
…above, or read the transcript here.) It’s about the rise in basketball players (and other athletes) showing up at press conferences wearing the kind of eyeglasses usually associated with Steve…
…listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) It’s about the question of whether low-paid employees are indeed a good deal for a retailer’s bottom line as…
…media player above, or read the transcript here.) In it, Steve Levitt talks to Kai Ryssdal about whether it’s effective to pay kids to do well in school. Levitt, along…
…media player above, or read the transcript.) With the 2012 Summer Olympic Games getting underway this week in London, we ask a simple question: do host cities really get the…
…you. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) If you’re a longtime reader, you probably already have…
…podcast, “There’s Cake in the Breakroom!” You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript here. There are at least…