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Tonight, 20/20 Gets SuperFreaky

Tonight, ABC's 20/20 devotes a full hour to SuperFreakonomics. The show's five segments can be previewed online: ...

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Freakonomics — October 23

Will There Be Snow in Moscow This Winter?

Not if the mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov has his way. According to Simon Shuster at TIME magazine, For just a few million dollars, the mayor's office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow ...

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Freakonomics — October 23

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The Quantified Life

You know yourself pretty well. But what if a lot of your conventional wisdom about what makes you tick--what makes you happy, healthy and whole--turned out to be wrong? How would you find out? You'd probably start by... ...

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Freakonomics — October 23

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Naming the Child

My son Andrew died exactly ten years ago today, October 23, 1999, nine days after his first birthday. No one would describe me as emotional. And yet the wound still remains remarkably raw. ...

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Freakonomics — October 23

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Pay What You Can Afford?

The makers of World of Goo, a "physics-based puzzle game," let customers pay what they wanted for the game - which normally sells at $20 - and a week after the offer, 57,000 people bought the game, bringing in over $100,000 in sales. ...

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Freakonomics — October 23

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Quotes Uncovered: Playing Cards With Doc and Eating at Mom's

A while back, I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research by me. Hundreds of people have responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a few per week. Casey Frank ask...

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Freakonomics — October 22