Artificial Insemination: What About the Other Animals?
…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…
…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…
…century. The intent is to remake the agricultural landscape to look more like it did decades ago. But unless the most basic laws of economics cease to hold, the smallholder…
[omny:https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/aaea4e69-af51-495e-afc9-a9760146922b/14a43378-edb2-49be-8511-ab0d000a7030/b9b380d4-dcb1-4d37-b3d3-ab0d001c5e24/audio.mp3] Photo: Martin Pettitt In our latest Freakonomics Radio on Marketplace podcast, we’re talking turkey, literally. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or…
…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)…
…very likely. Q. I have been thinking about what I call “consumption traps” since I was a kid in the early 1990s. I think a huge number of people in…
…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…
…programs so as to tackle the idiosyncratic problems of each country. 2) Likewise, the current myopic focus of the adjustment programs on fiscal measures needs to change. Clearly countries like…
…if there were that many then, feet be going? AYALA: So, they’d go to rendering. And it might end up in dog food or something like that. But certainly not…
…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…
…us into a food rut that lasted for roughly 70 years: COWEN: I think there is a very bad period for American food. It runs something like 1910 through maybe…
…Olav Mellingsater for CNN writes: A rainy summer reduced the quality of animal feed, decreasing milk production in Norway this year by 20 million liters (5.3 million gallons) compared with…
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…politics: money buys elections. But how true is that truism? That’s the question Kai Ryssdal and I tackle in our latest Marketplace podcast. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed,…
…new Twitter feed on food, a must-follow; our related podcast is here. Is more stress good for cops’ decision-making? Is Vestas in trouble? The economics of Grant Achatz‘s restaurant Next….
…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…
…So what happened? If you’re a Twitter pro, you’ve probably already figured it out. Our swag offer in fact created an incentive to unfollow and then refollow our feed. Appropriately…
(Photo: Ruthie Hansen) There’s a new iPad app for parents to incentivize children to do chores. HighScore House! sets up a market for parents and children to assign points to…
(Photo: Alan Cleaver) Our latest podcast, “Save Me From Myself,” is about the use of commitment devices. (You can download/subscribe at iTunes or get the RSS feed.) A commitment device…
…contributors, and possible economic solutions, to the problem. (Download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, listen via the media player above, or read the transcript.) One suspected contributor to obesity,…
…Foster School of Business, who specializes in organizational behavior. JOHNSON: A lot of the current research on employee morale and managing people in general in organizations suggests that this may…
Our latest podcast is called “How Biased Is Your Media?” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes or get the RSS feed.) It includes an interview with University of Chicago economist Matthew…
…the link between educational attainment and cotton exports in Uzbekistan — this is going to be a great blog to follow. They’ve already earned a spot in my RSS feed….
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…were more likely than subject-matter experts to solve a challenge on that web platform. Intriguingly, women were more likely than men to be successful solvers—which Lakhani thinks may indicate that…
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…job. Moreover, our growing tools of cooperation allow for things like crowdsourcing and micro-financing and the like. Consider Foldit, the crowdsourced protein folding game created by graduate students at the…
…a company great. It’s just being exemplified in a different arenas. It takes good strategic thinking to think far enough out in advance and say, ‘I’m going to get a…
…“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…
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