The channel surfers among you probably noticed that all day MSNBC has been airing large chunks of NBC’s broadcast from the morning of September 11th, 2001. I’m curious how most people react to this. I find it pretty riveting, although I could do without the teasers before each commercial.
Six years ago, I was asleep for [...]
Steven Levitt has posted a follow-up to yesterday’s controversial terror brainstorming session. Apparently yesterday’s post generated more hate mail than anything he’s produced since his famously controversial paper linking abortions to crime reduction. I dare say Levitt does a much better job responding to his critics than I did.
Many of the e-mails he received seem [...]
First, freakonomics.com has moved to the New York Times, good for them. Second, as of next month we can all bring lighters on planes again. Good for us. Third, economist Steven Levitt (coauthor of the book Freakonomics) just wrote a post about how best to create a terrorist attack, good for him.
Like most blog posts, [...]