They now have a free podcast and website going for new topics to discuss:
http://freakonomicsradio.com/
Some of their controversial but data-driven assertions:
- Obesity probably won't kill you and doesn't cost society much (correlation doesn't equal causation)
- It's a good bet for soccer penalty takers to just kick the ball at the middle of the goal (game theory between goalie and striker)
- Then-candidate Obama was slow to denounce his former pastor Jeremiah Wright partly because of a cost-benefit quandary: tolerate his inflammatory comments, or admit to voters that he and his wife stopped regularly attending church after their kids were born. Obama wasn't turned off by Wright's comments because he wasn't in the congregation to hear them, but the campaign thought that the costs of publicly admitting he wasn't a regular church-goer (especially considering the ignorant attacks on his faith and American-ness) were greater than standing behind Wright, at least initially.
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