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FiveThirtyEight goes to the NY Times
Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight is licensing its content to the NY Times for the next three years. In the near future,...
Freakonomics documentary review
Indiewire has a review of the Freakonomics documentary that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival the other day. Taking his...
Pretend Christians
From the inbox over at the Freakonomics blog, a family in Texas pretends to be Christian so that their children...
SuperFreakonomics not so super
In a New Yorker book review this week, Elizabeth Kolbert tears Levitt and Dubner a new one over the geoengineering...
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I don't read books anymore
That's not precisely true, but my book reading is down to a trickle of what it used to be. Most of my reading happens online for kottke.org and when I'm through with all that, the last thing I want to do is tuck into a book, no matter how good it is. But what I really haven't been doing is talking about the books I've read or am interested in...
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SuperFreakonomics
How do you follow up a kooky-titled bestseller like Freakonomics? With a book called SuperFreakonomics. It's due out on October...
The President and the economy
On the Freakonomics blog, Dmitri Leybman tells us about the three main ways that the President's political party can have...
The new liberal arts
Snarkmarket, one of my favorite WWW homepages, is making a book on the new liberal arts based on the conversation...
Nathan Myhrvold in the north
Nathan Myhrvold, billionaire polymath, recently wrote a series of three posts for the Freakonomics blog about his trips to Iceland...
Interesting gallery of Freakonomics book covers from
Interesting gallery of Freakonomics book covers from around the world. I enjoyed the Turkish version -- "just put a hot...
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The Eliot Spitzer affair and the business of sex
One of the side effects of the Eliot Spitzer situation is the discussion of prostitution happening in various places online by those with experience in or knowledge of that profession. Here are a few I've run across. On the Freakonomics blog, an interview with a "high-end call girl" named Allie about the Spitzer affair. Almost all of my clients are married. I would say easily over 90 percent. I'm not...
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Stephen Dubner wrote a short article on
Stephen Dubner wrote a short article on one of my favorite topics of the recent past: deliberate practice. This means...
There's a big kerfuffle (how many points
There's a big kerfuffle (how many points do I get for that?) over Hasbro, makers of Scrabble, suing Rajat and...
Sudhir Venkatesh recently sat down with some
Sudhir Venkatesh recently sat down with some real gang members to watch some episodes of the The Wire. The greatest...
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Jessica Hagy
If you haven't seen them yet (and chances are you have), Jessica Hagy's index cards are little marvels of wit and wisdom. They've also netted her world-wide acclaim and a book deal with Penguin. Her book, Indexed, comes out next year. While she's not the first blogger with a book deal, I love her cards so much I asked her to chat with me about how she started blogging--as well...
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Stopping underground coal fires would significantly reduce
Stopping underground coal fires would significantly reduce the amount of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere. Underground coal fires...
What will air travel in the US
What will air travel in the US look like in ten years? Five industry insiders respond....
Radiohead has a new album coming out
Radiohead has a new album coming out called In Rainbows. It's only available from their site for now, either as...
Steven Levitt notes a passage from Edward
Steven Levitt notes a passage from Edward Conlon's Blue Blood about the difference in pay between the police and homeless...
Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt (aka the
Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt (aka the Freakonomics guys) on the first-world phenomenon of doing menial labor as a hobby....
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