Will This Weed Really ‘Save Humanity’?
…But unlike other biodiesel crops, jatropha can be grown almost anywhere — including deserts, trash dumps, and rock piles. It doesn’t need much water or fertilizer, and it isn’t edible….
…But unlike other biodiesel crops, jatropha can be grown almost anywhere — including deserts, trash dumps, and rock piles. It doesn’t need much water or fertilizer, and it isn’t edible….
…global apartheid. So I think the burden of proof lies with supporters of immigration controls to justify why they think letting people move freely would have such catastrophic consequences. And,…
…“I don’t think Bryan is ordinarily crazy … but I should like to examine him as a degenerate.” By the latter part of the 20th century, this type of blatant…
…of barley, and shifted the supply curve of beer to the left. I would think that the shortage is temporary – with higher prices of barley, more farmers will plant…
…international socio and economic turmoil, culminating in events like Vietnam, the war in the Balkans, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. In his new book, A Shattered Peace, Forbes.com executive editor David…
…to communicate with the kids. Teachers and students can text back and forth about homework assignments. Celebrities (or everyday success stories like graduates of the high school who have gone…
…they’re on a sliding scale, and poorer nations don’t have to reach the same standard as richer nations), I don’t think the candidates should feed the current frenzy against free…
…guests revealed that roughly one-third of them actively liked turkey, while roughly another third tolerated it, and the last third weren’t very interested. This leads me to wonder: why do…
…winnings, I enjoyed my betting experience thoroughly; I’m even thinking about going back next weekend. According to David Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of…
…one that precludes true competition. Think of it this way: why don’t more companies seek out the business of rating debt? The payouts for ratings agencies are not chicken feed….
…a dozen major newspapers from around the world side by side right here on your browser, thanks to a feed from the Newseum, arranged by the design company Rayogram. [%comments]…
…though they are their own children, he said — children with very specific dietary needs. After all, many of these animals earn their keep by entertaining us. Who wants to…
…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…
…for the organization’s aid efforts. The hope is that a predictable market will encourage governments and farmers to invest more heavily in inputs like irrigation and fertilizer. In an interview…
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?…
…record of futurologists has taught me humility. H.G. Wells sounds like Edwardian Britain with machines. Aldous Huxley sounds like 1920s New Mexico on drugs. Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov…
…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…
…many people suffer multiple episodes every year. In a highly endemic locale like rural Malawi, a child might suffer twelve episodes of malaria before the age of 2! Q. The…
…sourced from small, organic, free-range farms are less likely to be contaminated with salmonella, consumers are flocking to farmers’ markets and backyard coops in a panicked quest to avoid industrially…
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…
…is that the recent deficits are just a drop in the bucket compared to the structural imbalance we faced even before the recession. (Just kidding.) I, and many others, think…