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What's More Likely: That Your Vote Will Matter or That You'll Help Discover Extraterrestrial Life?

Here's an e-mail from a reader named Nadaav Zohar of Akron, Ohio. I like the way he thinks. Every election season, I can usually count on a Freakonomics blog entry or three about voting and why it is pointless. I very much agree with your analysis, and I don't vote. ...

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Freakonomics — October 30

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Cash and Cabbies

Hopefully, my last post was sadly misinformed. Was it? Allen J. Fromberg, Deputy Commissioner of Public Affairs for the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission, was kind enough to respond to some arguments I presented about the difficult circumstances facing New York cab drivers. According to...

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Freakonomics — October 29

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Geoengineering to Have Its Day in the Sun

Most readers of this blog are probably aware of the tit-for-tat between us and some critics of our global-warming chapter in SuperFreakonomics. In the larger scheme of things the dispute is practically meaningless, at best a very distant second to the actual climate issues on the table. To tha...

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Freakonomics — October 29

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Quotes Uncovered: Death and Statistics

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. Marc Lange aske...

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Freakonomics — October 29

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Steve Levitt on The Daily Show

He wondered if he was in for a Jim Cramer-type beatdown. But it turns out that Jon Stewart doesn't appreciate the global-warming fanatics either, and gave SuperFreakonomics a thumping endorsement. ...

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Freakonomics — October 29

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Fewer Murders, More Suicide?

GOOD produced this sharp info-graphic on murder rates worldwide. One interesting trend it doesn't show: countries with lower murder rates tend to have higher rates of suicide. Take Japan, which has one of the lowest murder rates in the world - just 0.5 per 100,000 people. It also has a very high ...

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Freakonomics — October 29