Radio in Progress: Napoleon's War on Rotting Food
…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…
…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…
…You throw yourself into the abyss. You get scared. You stay up late at night thinking and thinking and thinking. You feel like the death of emptiness is worse than…
…their pants. On Monday, he’s treated like a hero. But, interestingly, people find themselves thinking better of him not only for his athletic exploits. Suddenly, everything about him seems a…
…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…
…seems like a very simple problem to solve, but my efforts over the years have been unsatisfactory. Sites like CNN.com are presented reasonably well, but the actual “news” is way…
…hasn’t ended, and yet there are those who think we need a third round. The minutes of the latest meeting of Federal Reserve officials, released Tuesday, show them divided on…
…Japanese Family Firms,” which is featured in our latest podcast and hour-long Freakonomics Radio special “The Church of Scionology.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live…
…our latest podcast, “The Church of Scionology,” tries to answer. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) Stanford economist Francisco Pérez-González has looked…
That’s the question we asked in our latest podcast and hour-long Freakonomics Radio special “The Church of Scionology.” You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the…
…of Scionology.” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) At this post’s publishing date, over 80% of those who voted chose that they…
…feed off it, namely high-frequency traders. These are the guys who use complex algorithms and super-fast computers to scour the markets for tiny price differentials, often executing trades in microseconds…
For our latest podcast, “The Economist’s Guide to Parenting” (you can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player, or read a transcript here), we…
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, “The Suicide Paradox,” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here) investigates the mystery of suicide. Photo: The U.S….
In the last Freakonomics Radio episode “The Suicide Paradox” (you can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here), we talked to a San Francisco cabbie…
…at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen live via the media player above, or read the transcript here.) There are a host of professions built around predicting some future outcome:…
…at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) Tetlock is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, well-known for his book Expert Political Judgment, in which he…
…(You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here.) But predictions about world politics and the economy are hard — there are so many moving…
…the choppiness. These guys are pretty much the only ones who have been consistently making money the last several weeks. High-frequency traders feed off of volatility. No matter which way…
…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…
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast “Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone?” has a pretty obvious premise. You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed or read the transcript here….
…incendiary argument — that the stock market itself causes the recession. I have nowhere near the requisite expertise to assess this argument but one part of it does resonate: unlike…
…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),…
…low-turnout elections like these, interest groups like teachers’ unions can make a bigger impact at the polls. It’s all the more reason why this year, unlike in other elections, it…