Tag: Malcolm Gladwell
My favorite podcast—since the day it launched—is Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History. I'm always excited when a new episode auto-downloads on my phone, and I rarely let an episode sit an entire day.
This week's episode is entitled "The King of Tears," and Gladwell's premise is that country music is the...
As I mentioned some time ago, I love Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, an economics professor at Chicago University, and Stephen Dubner, a journalist, teamed up to write two books—Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics—which explore “the hidden side of everything.” Levitt brilliantly manipulates and interprets statistical data in order to find why things...