Robert Sullivan

2 months ago | freakonomics.com | Kaylee Byers |Robert Sullivan |Stephen Dubner

Episode Transcript Sometimes, we go to war with our neighbors. And sometimes those neighbors are rats. Robert CORRIGAN: Okay, so we’re outside in New York City, looking at what we call active rodent signs, or A.R.S. That is Bobby Corrigan. He is an urban rodentologist — a former rodent researcher who now works for the City of New York. CORRIGAN: Everyone thinks there’s a rat world below our feet and to some degree, that’s true.

Nov 30, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Robert Sullivan

Share On a midweek midday in 1978, I was whiling away lunch-hour in the small bookstore in Concord, browsing but not buying due to a dry cashflow. I picked up a volume on a side desk of remainers. Today — the actual today, in the autumn of 2024 — I see penciled on the flap that it set me back $5.95, not Harper’s prohibitive $12.50 list. “You like E.B. White?” asked the nice woman who handled daytimes. “I liked Charlotte’s Web.” “Do you know The New Yorker?” “Oh, yeah,” I sort of lied.