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Freakonomics - Dec 18, 2008
On family holiday in London, we were riding in a taxi out to the Imperial War Museum. As we passed the riverfront headquarters of MI6, a.k.a. the Secret Intelligence Service, my wife happened to be futzing with her …
Also tagged: england, travel, uncategorized, intelligence
Freakonomics - Dec 15, 2008
Books on economics have become far more popular in recent years, with Freakonomics being one example. Fantasy books are also rising in popularity, with my beloved Harry Potter books leading the charge. It is perhaps …
Also tagged: uncategorized, economics
Freakonomics - Dec 8, 2008
Some of us saw it as a sign of the times when Metacritic suddenly stopped compiling book reviews. For those of you unfamiliar with the site, Metacritic carries aggregate review scores for video games, TV shows, movies …
Also tagged: uncategorized, the internet
Freakonomics - Dec 5, 2008
From a reader we'll call E.K.: I thought you might get a kick out of this photo of my kids, who are big fans of your work. The little one is 6, the older one (who already read Freakonomics) is 10. They had gotten up …
Also tagged: children, uncategorized
Freakonomics - Dec 4, 2008
Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own - it needn't have anything to do with quotations - send it along here. I …
Also tagged: uncategorized, quote, bleg, fred shapiro
Freakonomics - Nov 26, 2008
This piece from Tom Ricks, the military correspondent at the Washington Post, has some excellent stories about creative anti-terrorist strategies used by the British to fight the I.R.A., including a laundry mat where …
Also tagged: military, uncategorized, war
Freakonomics - Nov 24, 2008
Photo: Felicity Paxton I've never thought much about my toilet. (Though we've discussed them on this blog here, here, and here.) It usually does its job; sometimes it needs a little help from the plunger. Rose George's …
Also tagged: interviews, q and a, uncategorized, incentives, authors, sanitation, rose george
Freakonomics - Oct 30, 2008
Sean Masaki Flynn Last week, we solicited your questions for Sean Masaki Flynn, author of Economics for Dummies. In his answers below, Flynn addresses the economics of education, the relationship between aikido and …
Also tagged: interviews, general, q and a, economics, sean masaki flynn
Freakonomics - Oct 22, 2008
Sean Masaki Flynn says he is "mildly notorious" among his friends for being the author of the best-selling Economics for Dummies. Sean Masaki Flynn But the best part of doing the book: The six foreign translations; and …
Also tagged: interviews, general, q and a, economics, sean masaki flynn
Freakonomics - Oct 6, 2008
My 8-year-old daughter Amanda has the stack of books on her desk that she plans to read next: The Princess Tales: Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep, by Gail Carson Levine Half Magic, by Edward Eager Magic Tree House …