What’s a bleg?
A bleg = blog + beg — i.e., using a blog to beg for information. (This is not to be confused with the Dutch beleg — which is either a sandwich filling or the declaration of martial law.)
We have blegged before on this blog, asking our readers for Vegas travel tips, reading material, and new technologies worth adopting.
And you, the readers, always respond with great generosity, breadth, and insight.
But why should we be the sole beneficiaries of such blegs? Surely our readers, in addition to providing a great reservoir of diverse knowledge, also have bleg requests of their own.
Perhaps you or someone you love has just been diagnosed with a rare disease and you are looking for good data and advice. Maybe you just landed a semester abroad in India and want to arrive fully prepared to take advantage. Maybe you — like me — have finally grown weary of wrestling with all the glitches in a new PC laptop and wonder if it is time to convert to Mac.
So let’s put you, our readership, to work on behalf of you, our readership. You can post your blegs in the comments section below, and/or send them to bleg@freakonomics.com.
It might be helpful to add a bit of contextual information to your bleg (see the examples linked to in the third paragraph, above) rather than just floating a question on its own. We’ll then select blegs and post them one at a time; I am guessing that the response to these blegs will prove to the world that the people who read Freakonomics.com are indeed among the wisest and most thoughtful people in the land.
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I’m interested in the theories, explanations, and data that relate to why African-Americans have abandoned baseball.
How does one teach creativity to an old adult like me? I remember in Levitt’s video saying he taught his kids rock, paper, scissor to teach creativity, saying it’s quite hard to teach creativity.
Oh, I forgot my question on the other post…
What’s a better name than Ruth’s Chris?
This might be the right place to ask, but what happened to “The FREAK-est Links”?
General Economics Books: Undercover Economist by Harford
Favorite Web Sites: Very Short List (daily links to interesting music, videos, reading, etc.), You Don’t Say (blog about English Language), Stuff White People Like (blog making fun of modern day hipsters/yuppies)
I would like to know why teachers are not taught how to teach gifted children. More and more our school systems are spending all of their energies trying to bring the lower levels up. While that is a good thing for those children, the children on the upper end of the spectrum often end up unchallenged and never reach their full potential. Not only that, they are often penalized for knowing more than their classmates. Why has it become socially unacceptable to be intelligent?
A good starting point to learn more about this issue:
http://www.nationdeceived.org/
Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg
Probably the best (Alongside Freakonomics of course =P)
Which rivers in Peru offer the best Class IV/V whitewater rafting? A friend and I are vacationing there for two weeks in July and want to do something besides the usual.