Want to Cut Air Pollution? Easy: Make the Olympics Permanent
A new working paper gives tangible evidence that the measures taken by Beijing to reduce air pollution during the 2008 Olympics worked, but that more than half the effect faded away by October 2009. Read More »
Ten Reasons You Need to Quit Your Job
Contributor James Altucher reflects on a career of disparate jobs in corporate America and Wall Street, and offers 10 signs when you know it’s time to quit that corporate job you loathe. Read More »
Did March Madness Make You More or Less Productive?
A new study out of the University of Copenhagen suggests that engaging in distracting behavior, like watching college basketball on the internet while at work, does not reduce your productivity. Read More »
A Freakonomics Contest, Nostalgia Edition
I was in California the other day and saw someone doing something that I haven’t seen done in a good while. I used to do it myself quite a bit, when I was in college, largely out of necessity. What was it? Read More »
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. If you haven’t seen it yet, the movie features Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, and was made by a dream team of documentary directors. Paste Magazine named it one of the 