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- What Do Museums Have That Sports Games Don't?Yesterday
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About 140 million people in the U.S. will attend a major-league sporting event this year, according to this NPR article.
But as the same article says, museums will draw about 850 million attendees this year.
So why do more people make trips to museums than to sports games? Well, they are obviously cheaper, and [...]
- Roland Fryer on The Colbert ReportYesterday
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I'm a bit late getting to this, but I just saw that my friend Roland Fryer appeared on The Colbert Report on Monday. He was - officially - talking about his current experiments with providing incentives for kids to get better grades.
While it is pretty hard to look good next to Colbert, Roland [...]
- Prediction: David Gregory Will Be a Great Meet the Press HostYesterday
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It looks like David Gregory has been selected by NBC to replace the late Tim Russert as host of Meet the Press. I predict he will flourish.
Why?
I don't know much about his talent, since I've rarely seen him on TV. My prediction is based on the fact that he is, by my reckoning, approximately 17 [...]
- Our Daily Bleg: Holy Comic Quotations, Batman!Yesterday
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Our resident quote bleggar Fred Shapiro, editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is back with another request. If you have a bleg of your own - it needn't have anything to do with quotations - send it along here.
I would welcome suggestions of what are the most famous quotations of all time from comic [...]
- The Recession Hits HomeYesterday
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Ronald Reagan famously described the distinction between a recession and a depression as follows: "A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours."
Right now, a few more economists might be willing to use the D-word.
The "help wanted" publication for Ph.D. economists is sporting a brand [...]