Another cool Freakonomics blog from the New York Times: “A New Kind of Starting Pitcher?”
The suggestion is start a baseball game with “the Opener”, kind of like a closer, someone …

Again with the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times: “An Important Human Right.”
Subsidized vacations for citizens over 65, kids between the ages of 18 and 25, and families facing …

Months that should be summer’s prime,
Sleet and snow and frost and rime.
Air so cold you see your breath,
Eighteen hundred and froze to death.
Oh that Freakonomics Blog at the New York …

The Freakonomics blog over at the New York Times had a good post yesterday about money in the United States – specifically what to do with the dollar bill and …

The Freakonomics blog over at the New York Times is always an interesting read.
The other day they had a good post about the speed limit, and how, according to a …

I love the decennial census, but you know this (see Census Fun).
We got our form in the mail the other day and I was confused to see you couldn’t fill …

I love-love-love things like this.
From the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times we get a graph showing water consumption in Edmonton from February 28 – during the men’s Olympic …