Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Where to go for Freakonomics?

As of yesterday, the Freakonomics blog (formerly at freakonomics.com) is now hosted at, and promoted by, NYTimes.com; check it:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/

I've read through occasionally, and, like reading Marginal Revolution or Malcolm Gladwell's blog, this one is full of tons and tons of random "food for thought"-type entries. That is, this blog includes a really wide array of subject matter - basically, whatever the authors, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt (and site editor Melissa Lafsky), think is interesting on any given day: why *not* muse about global warming vs. a global pandemic (if you had to choose your poison) or starting a bar where the price of beer is updated in real-time, based on demand? Variety is the spice of life, for sure.

At the least, their entries are good jumping off points - links provided therein - to take a deeper dive into a topic you probably wouldn't have come across otherwise. And, depending on your view, this sort of roulette is an entertaining online resource or a total timewaster. For the latter, "food for thought", without application, is, well, mental masturbation (to put it colloquially). haha. But, yeah, what's wrong with that? Flex them braincells; this is a knowledge economy after all..

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