Stephen Dubner: Our latest Freakonomics Radio on  Marketplace  podcast is called “Introducing ‘Freakonomics Experiments.’”. In it, Steve Levitt tells Kai Ryssdal about a new website we’ve just launched that will help you make tough decisions in life while also taking part in academic research. via www.freakonomics.com. MORE >>

This story first appeared in The Atlantic Cities and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Although temperatures around the country have receded this week, many Australians no doubt are still having MORE >>

On Wednesday, Louis Zacharilla, co-founder of the Intelligent Community Forum. ICF), announced the organization's seven finalists for the 2013. Intelligent Community of the Year. The announcement was made during the. final day of the Pacific Telecommunications Council's annual meeting in. Honolulu. Two other U.S. cities -- Mitchell, S.D.; MORE >>

Earlier this week, the Sierra Club announced that it is lifting its long-standing institutional prohibition on civil disobedience so that it can protest the development of the tar sands. The club's board of directors approved the MORE >>

When I was a child, the Pileated Woodpecker was a bird that loomed large — both literally, as the biggest surviving woodpecker in the United States, and figuratively, in that it was a bird on that happy borderland between humdrum and mythical, between everyday and nonexistent. In Ithaca, I spotted a Pileated once or twice on campus. Odd birds? MORE >>