diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/images/news/freakonomics.png b/src/calibre/gui2/images/news/freakonomics.png
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diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
index 71c4b71483..f2ed6d2d24 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/__init__.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ recipe_modules = ['recipe_' + r for r in (
            'spiegel_int', 'themarketticker', 'tomshardware', 'xkcd', 'ftd', 'zdnet',
            'joelonsoftware', 'telepolis', 'common_dreams', 'nin', 'tomshardware_de',
            'pagina12', 'infobae', 'ambito', 'elargentino', 'sueddeutsche', 'the_age',
-           'laprensa', 'amspec',
+           'laprensa', 'amspec', 'freakonomics',
           )]
 
 import re, imp, inspect, time, os
diff --git a/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_freakonomics.py b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_freakonomics.py
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index 0000000000..704f7f727d
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+++ b/src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/recipe_freakonomics.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env  python
+__license__   = 'GPL v3'
+__copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
+__docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
+
+from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
+
+class Freakonomics(BasicNewsRecipe):
+    
+    title = 'Freakonomics Blog'
+    description = 'The Hidden side of everything'
+    __author__ = 'Kovid Goyal'
+    
+    feeds = [('Blog', 'http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/atom/')]
+    
+    def get_article_url(self, article):
+        return article.get('feedburner_origlink', None)
+        
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        return url + '?pagemode=print'
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