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• Freakonomics wonders why all environmentalists arent vegan and Im like, "for real!"

  
  vegansaurus! — Authority: 497
  Here’s a nice link for you guys!:  Agnostic Carnivores and Global Warming: Why Enviros Go After Coal and Not Cows , by James McWilliams. I think it’s a must-read. Freakonomics summarizes and discusses a recent report (link to PDF, FYI) by the  World Preservation Foundation in which they make the case for a ...
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• “Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors”

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Our Freakonomics Radio project includes a  regular podcast  and  Marketplace segment . But twice a year, we also produce a set of five one-hour specials that play on public-radio stations across the country.  Find a station  near you. Season 2, Episode 5 Americans have a famously low savings rate: a ...
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• “Eating and Tweeting”

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Our Freakonomics Radio project includes a  regular podcast  and  Marketplace segment . But twice a year, we also produce a set of five one-hour specials that play on public-radio stations across the country.  Find a station  near you. Season 2, Episode 4 In this episode, we look at the tension ...
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• “The Power of the President — and the Thumb”

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Our Freakonomics Radio project includes a  regular podcast  and  Marketplace segment . But twice a year, we also produce a set of five one-hour specials that play on public-radio stations across the country.  Find a station  near you. Season 2, Episode 3 In this episode we ask a simple, heretical ...
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• “Show and Yell”

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Our Freakonomics Radio project includes a regular podcast and  Marketplace segment . But twice a year, we also produce a set of five one-hour specials that play on public-radio stations across the country.  Find a station  near you. Season 2, Episode 2 (Photo by Nick Laham/Getty Images) Is booing an ...
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• “The Days of Wine and Mouses”

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Our Freakonomics Radio project includes a  regular podcast  and  Marketplace segment . But twice a year, we also produce a set of five one-hour specials that play on public-radio stations across the country.  Find a station  near you. Season 2, Episode 1 When you take a sip of Cabernet, what are you ...
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• How to Talk to Doctors: Groopman and Hartzband Answer Your Questions

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Last week, we solicited questions for Harvard physicians  Jerome Groopman   and Pamela Hartzband , the authors of  Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What Is Right For You . They’ve come back to us with some answers. As always, thanks for your questions, and thanks to Jerry and Pam for taking the time to ...
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• Best Fan Mail Ever?

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  (Photo: Image Editor) Given the risk of dislocating an elbow while patting oneself on the back, we don’t usually print fan mail. But this one, from  James J. Krefft (also an author himself), needed to be shared: Recently I borrowed a copy of your book from a friend (so basically pure benefit for me) and I ...
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• Location, Location, Location

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  A flower shop near Olivet Memorial Park in Colma, CA. (Photo: Tom Hilton) One of the private-sector retail stores adjacent to the main Austin cemetery sells grave monuments and related items, while another is a major gardening center. These are sensible location decisions—these retailers provide convenience to ...
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• A Technology Paradox

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  David Brooks , in his Times column today (emphasis added): When I started covering presidential primaries, the best part was getting to know the candidates. We journalists would ride around in vans and buses with them and get an intimate look at what it’s like to endure this soul-destroying process. But the ...
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• FREAK-est Links

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  No, Brian Williams is not Walter Cronkite . Cory Doctorow: “The Coming War on General Computation” ( video ; transcript ; interesting!) Whole Foods has been thriving in a down economy. Open-sourcing the scientific process.
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• How Much Does Campaign Spending Influence the Election? A Freakonomics Quorum

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  We have long argued (most recently in this Marketplace podcast ) that campaign spending isn’t nearly as influential in elections as the conventional wisdom holds. This week, with the G.O.P. presidential hopefuls in South Carolina spending lots of money (and time and effort) and everyone’s talking about  ...
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• Does funding make candidates win, or do winning candidates get the funding?

  
  Why We Worry — Authority: 79
  Mitt Romney holds a commanding position in the GOP primary, despite acerbic opposition among Republican activists to his centrist record and near-universal distaste for his character among anyone who’s ever seen him or heard him speak. It often seems that Romney – who, with $250 million in personal worth, is ...
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• Competition and eu-competition is the lifeblood of emergent order

  
  Our Dinner Table — Authority: 110
  In a recent Freakonomics podcast encore, host Stephen Dubner explores How a Bad Radio Station is like our School System . About 5 minutes into the podcast, Dubner asks Joel Klein, former chancellor of the New York City Public School System, why the standard model of education — “25 students in a box” — ...
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• Football Freakonomics: The Frozen Conundrum

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  (Photo: macwagen) The following is a cross-post from NFL.com, where we’ve recently launched a  Football Freakonomics project . Well, it’s January. And even though my team stumbled into inglorious , injury-plagued defeat , the most exciting football is yet to be played — some of it in very cold ...
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• The Mathematics of Magic

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  I don’t particularly like math.  I’ve never been a fan of magic either.  For some reason, however, when I heard about a new book entitled Magical Mathematics  written by two first-rate mathematicians, Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham , I felt compelled to buy it and read it. I have to say that it is really ...
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• What Does Tim Tebow Pray For?

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  In a recent Football Freakonomics video about Tim Tebow , I made a connection between his faith and performance: Tebow is hardly the first NFL quarterback to be demonstrative about his religious faith. But he’s very demonstrative – and it’s worth considering how that faith may affect his play. By ...
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• Where to Find Freakonomics Radio on a Station Near You

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Our Freakonomics Radio project includes a regular podcast and Marketplace segment. But twice a year, we also produce a set of five one-hour specials that play on public-radio stations across the country, on various dates and times. Below is a list of those stations, which we’ll update as needed. Check station ...
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• Where Murder Is Falling, and Rising

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  (Photo: Wonderlane) Encouraging news via the Associated Press : For the first time in almost half a century, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation’s top 15 causes of death. In Mexico, meanwhile, the murder trend continues to move in the opposite direction : During the first nine months of 2011, ...
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• FREAK-est Links

  
  Freakonomics — Authority: 119
  Are world finances being run by an MIT fraternity ? A Bronx high-school teacher talks about teacher cheating . Is the Mafia the biggest bank in Italy ? (HT: Eric Jones ) Tyler Cowen ‘s new Twitter feed on food, a must-follow; our related podcast is here . Is more stress good for cops’ decision-making ...
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