What to Do After a Dining Disaster?
Here’s the scene: a woman on New York’s Upper West Side walks into Le Pain Quotidien, a high-end café chain. She sits down, orders a salad. The salad arrives. The contents: a) leafy greens and b) an entire dead mouse. Two nearby customers, one of whom happened to be Stephen Dubner, saw the scene unfold. Read More »
Quitting Time
No one wants to be called a quitter. And absolutely no one wants to be the guy who tells other people to quit … except maybe Stephen Dubner. Today on Marketplace, Dubner explains the virtues of quitting to Tess Vigeland, making the case that people don’t quit enough. Read More »
I Can See Clearly Now
What if $10 could buy you a 50 percent increase in how much a child learned in a school year? On Marketplace today, Stephen J. Dubner reports on how two economists, Paul Glewwe (rhymes with ‘heavy’) and Albert Park, improved test scores by giving away $10 eyeglasses to schoolchildren with poor eyesight in China’s rural Read More »
Painful Lessons
The nation is facing pain on many fronts — financial, governmental, personal. So what do we know about how to deal with it, sell it and forget it? We’ll ask a doctor, a hockey player and a governor for their tips. Read More »
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