Organized Ticket Scalping
Kyle Whelliston describes the secondary market for Olympics tickets in Vancouver. Read More »
When are High Wine Prices Justified?
In wake of some of the latest chatter about The Wine Trials 2010 (this one from Joe Briand, wine buyer for New Orleans’s excellent Link Restaurant Group, e.g. Cochon, Herbsaint, with a response from Wine Spectator executive editor Thomas Matthews), I thought it was time for a quick clarification of first principles here. Read More »
Freakonomics Goes Mental
Research from chapter 3 of Freakonomics appears on The Mentalist. Read More »
Quotes Uncovered: The First Casualty of War
Each week, I’ve been inviting readers to submit quotations whose origins they want me to try to trace, using my book, The Yale Book of Quotations, and my more recent research. Here is the latest round. Read More »
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