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  1. When You Have Honors Students in the Classroom: Because we are so short of faculty, I have a section of 30 hono.. http://bit.ly/4Er4Zjabout 7 hours ago from twitterfeed
  2. Home Is ...: Photojournalist Jonas Bendiksen spent six weeks living in and photographing the slums of Nairobi, .. http://bit.ly/2W5rojabout 9 hours ago from twitterfeed
  3. On the Prevalance of H1N1: In Seattle recently, I met a pulmonologist who said that the H1N1 virus has him busi.. http://bit.ly/4rWHDZabout 11 hours ago from twitterfeed
  4. Maps: Fighting Disease and Skewing Borders: A while back, we blogged about a site called Strange Maps, which fe.. http://bit.ly/EhKGZ12:06 PM Nov 9th from twitterfeed
  5. Happiness in Australia: I'm currently back home in Australia for a couple of weeks, and just want to give a hea.. http://bit.ly/1eEmD910:37 AM Nov 9th from twitterfeed
  6. Is Jaywalking in the Eye of the Beholder?: When cars entered the mainstream in the 1920s, they were considered .. http://bit.ly/ef8209:36 AM Nov 9th from twitterfeed
  7. Is Ford Once Again Leading the Way in Auto Safety?: In SuperFreakonomics, we tell the story of how Robert Stran.. http://bit.ly/3ZVcUc7:38 AM Nov 9th from twitterfeed
  8. Was the 20th Century Unusually Calm?: People worry that disasters have become more frequent and more damaging s.. http://bit.ly/3EK2Dc7:07 AM Nov 9th from twitterfeed
  9. What Are the Most Notable Quotes From 2009?: Yale Book of Quotations editor Fred solicits your nominations for .. http://bit.ly/293VRh12:06 PM Nov 6th from twitterfeed
  10. A Different Kind of Organ Market?: Who gets bumped to the front of UCLA medical center's liver-transplant line?.. http://bit.ly/4eQtTA11:06 AM Nov 6th from twitterfeed
  11. Charity Won't Contain This Secondary Market: Each year I receive about 10 introductory economics textbooks from.. http://bit.ly/3pLMZ99:38 AM Nov 6th from twitterfeed
  12. Do Earmarks Matter?: Making fun of earmarked Congressional spending is easy, feel-good entertainment. But is it.. http://bit.ly/btWQV9:05 AM Nov 6th from twitterfeed
  13. SuperFreakonomics Book Club: Emily Oster Answers Your Questions: Our first guest was University of Chicago econ.. http://bit.ly/3hHxAT8:06 AM Nov 6th from twitterfeed
  14. London Calling: Just announced: Levitt and Dubner's sold-out lecture at London's Royal Society for the Encourag.. http://bit.ly/223mbY7:06 AM Nov 6th from twitterfeed
  15. A Great Answer From a Flight Attendant: A while back, I wondered why flight attendants don't get tipped. Here's.. http://bit.ly/g97cm1:07 PM Nov 5th from twitterfeed
  16. Unfree Enterprise: Lately, the lot of the New York cabbie has improved a bit. But there are still some major sy.. http://bit.ly/PAreD10:36 AM Nov 5th from twitterfeed
  17. Women for Polygamy: What can polygamy on the outskirts of Russia tell us about the effects of the financial cri.. http://bit.ly/nxt789:14 AM Nov 5th from twitterfeed
  18. Is Climate-Change Belief a Religion?: Actually, yes, at least if you live in the United Kingdom. http://bit.ly/2scuby7:38 AM Nov 5th from twitterfeed
  19. Newspapers Not as Dead as You Think: We've blogged about proposals to save ailing print newspapers. Despite shr.. http://bit.ly/1iIR7H7:07 AM Nov 5th from twitterfeed
  20. The State of Geoengineering Research: As noted earlier, Congress today is holding its first-ever hearings on ge.. http://bit.ly/15gX6E3:05 AM Nov 5th from twitterfeed
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  • Bio The book Freakonomics has sold 3 million copies worldwide. This blog, begun in 2005, is meant to keep the conversation going.
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