| If Economists Ran the Schools A charter school organization in Arizona offers a glimpse at what the educational system would look like if economists were in charge.
 Green Building: LEEDing Us Where? What good does green building do when our cities are, by design, ecological train wrecks?
One Thing You Still Can't Do Online These days, you can do pretty much anything online, except for one: submit your U.S. census forms.
Quotes Uncovered: The Full Monty Each week, I've been inviting readers to submit quotations whose origins they want me to try to trace, using my book, The Yale Book of Quotations, and my more recent research. Here is the latest round.
One Small Step for Financial Literacy Annamaria Lusardi, one of the leading academic lights of financial literacy, has begun a new Financial Literacy Center.
Discrimination Against the Thin A magnificent dinner, but once again I feel discriminated against.
To Fight Malaria, Skip the Beer? If you're trying to avoid mosquito bites, try skipping the beer.
Freakonomics Radio: Lewis Black Fixes the Government Lewis Black, the smart and wonderfully noisy comedian helps us preview the third episode of our Freakonomics Radio podcast.
Paris Subways Get a Makeover Waiting for the Paris metro just got a lot more comfortable.
Why You'd Rather Ride With a Woman Than a Man Last post, I passed on some data showing that women are somewhat more likely than men to be involved in car accidents on a per mile driven basis. But men are far more likely (by between 50 and 100 percent) to be in crashes involving loss of life. Why are men's crashes so much more tragic?
A Bleg: Ideas for Radio Hong Kong? I have a brief visit to Hong Kong soon (my first!) and would like to bring back some material for our Freakonomics Radio podcast. Suggestions?
What's the Best Way to Hire an Economist? Economics departments in the U.S. and the U.K. use very different hiring processes for senior tenured positions. Which way is better?
Richard Nixon, Filibuster Foe In this interesting article from the American Prospect, Bruce Ackerman reveals how in 1957 Lyndon Johnson opposed an effort of Vice-President (and President of Senate) to reform the filibuster rule.
The Safest Time of Year for Swedish Drivers Does a bad winter equal more traffic fatalities? Not in Sweden.
Mayor of Moscow Versus Mother Nature: A Winner is Declared This fall, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov made a bold declaration. With the help of the Russian Air Force, he was going to use cloud seeding techniques to keep it from snowing in Moscow this winter. Did Luzhkov vanquish Mother Nature as he predicted he would?
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