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Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior.
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615. Is Ozempic as Magical as It Sounds?
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update)
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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614. Is the U.S. Sleeping on Threats from Russia and China?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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613. Dying Is Easy. Retail Is Hard.
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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612. Is Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade Its Most Valuable Asset?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse (Update)
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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611. Fareed Zakaria on What Just Happened, and What Comes Next
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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610. Who Wins and Who Loses Once the U.S. Legalizes Weed?
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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609. What Does It Take to Run a Cannabis Farm?
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Update)
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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608. Cannabis Is Booming, So Why Isn’t Anyone Getting Rich?
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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607. Is America Switching From Booze to Weed?
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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606. How to Predict the Presidency
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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605. What Do People Do All Day?
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth It
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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What Exactly Is College For? (Update)
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete (Update)
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Aug 12, 2024 |
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600. “If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?”
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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599. The World's Most Valuable Unused Resource
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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EXTRA: Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Update)
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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598. Is Overconsolidation a Threat to Democracy?
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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597. Why Do Your Eyeglasses Cost $1,000?
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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EXTRA: People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Update)
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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596. Farewell to a Generational Talent
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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595. Why Don't We Have Better Candidates for President?
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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593. You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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EXTRA: The Fascinatingly Mundane Secrets of the World’s Most Exclusive Nightclub
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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591. Signs of Progress, One Year at a Time
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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EXTRA: The Opioid Tragedy — How We Got Here
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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590. Can $55 Billion End the Opioid Epidemic?
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May 30, 2024 |
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589. Why Has the Opioid Crisis Lasted So Long?
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May 23, 2024 |
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Extra: Car Colors & Storage Units
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May 20, 2024 |
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588. Confessions of a Black Conservative
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May 16, 2024 |
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587. Should Companies Be Owned by Their Workers?
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May 09, 2024 |
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586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?
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May 02, 2024 |
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Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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584. How to Pave the Road to Hell
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Update)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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583. Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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582. Why Is Everyone Moving to Canada?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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581. What Both Parties Get Wrong About Immigration
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Extra: Madeleine Albright’s Warning on Immigration
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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580. The True Story of America’s Supremely Messed-Up Immigration System
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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579. Are You Caught in a Social Media Trap?
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Extra: What Is Sportswashing — and Does It Work? (Update)
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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578. Water, Water Everywhere — But You Have to Stop and Think
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Is Google Getting Worse? (Update)
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Extra: Mr. Feynman Takes a Trip — But Doesn’t Fall
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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The Vanishing Mr. Feynman
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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The Brilliant Mr. Feynman
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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How the San Francisco 49ers Stopped Being Losers (Update)
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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The Curious Mr. Feynman
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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574. “A Low Moment in Higher Education”
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Replay)
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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573. Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped?
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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572. Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia?
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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571. Greeting Cards, Pizza Boxes, and Personal Injury Lawyers
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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570. Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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569. Do You Need Closure?
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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568. Why Are People So Mad at Michael Lewis?
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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567. Do the Police Have a Management Problem?
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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513. Should Public Transit Be Free? (Update)
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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566. Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Extra: Jason Kelce Hates to Lose
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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565. Are Private Equity Firms Plundering the U.S. Economy?
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy? (Replay)
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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564. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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563. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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562. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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561. How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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232. A New Nobel Laureate Explains the Gender Pay Gap (Replay)
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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560. Is This “the Worst Job in Corporate America” — or Maybe the Best?
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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559. Are Two C.E.O.s Better Than One?
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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558. The Facts Are In: Two Parents Are Better Than One
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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557. When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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556. A.I. Is Changing Everything. Does That Include You?
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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555. New Technologies Always Scare Us. Is A.I. Any Different?
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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554. Can A.I. Take a Joke?
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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553. The Suddenly Diplomatic Rahm Emanuel
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished? (Ep. 454 Replay)
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Extra: A Modern Whaler Speaks Up
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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552. Freakonomics Radio Presents: The Economics of Everyday Things
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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551. What Can Whales Teach Us About Clean Energy, Workplace Harmony, and Living the Good Life?
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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550. Why Do People Still Hunt Whales?
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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549. The First Great American Industry
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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548. Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Why Did You Marry That Person? (Ep. 511 Replay)
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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547. Satya Nadella’s Intelligence Is Not Artificial
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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546. Are E.S.G. Investors Actually Helping the Environment?
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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545. Enough with the Slippery Slopes!
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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544. Ari Emanuel Is Never Indifferent
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Make Me a Match (Ep. 209 Update)
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May 25, 2023 |
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543. How to Return Stolen Art
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May 18, 2023 |
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542. Is a Museum Just a Trophy Case?
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May 11, 2023 |
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541. The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin
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May 04, 2023 |
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Why Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It (Ep. 323 Replay)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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540. Swearing Is More Important Than You Think
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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539. Why Does One Tiny State Set the Rules for Everyone?
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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538. A Radically Simple Way to Boost a Neighborhood
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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How to Hate Taxes a Little Bit Less (Ep. 400 Replay)
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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537. “Insurance Is Sexy.” Discuss.
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses? (Ep. 495 Replay)
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or Too Cheap?
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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535. Why Is Flying Safer Than Driving?
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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534. Air Travel Is a Miracle. Why Do We Hate It?
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million? (Ep. 493 Update)
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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The Economics of Everyday Things: Used Hotel Soaps
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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533. Will the Democrats “Make America Great Again”?
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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The Economics of Everyday Things: “My Sharona”
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal? (Ep. 429 Update)
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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The Economics of Everyday Things: Girl Scout Cookies
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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532. Do You Know Who Owns Your Vet?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Introducing “The Economics of Everyday Things”
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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531. Should You Trust Private Equity to Take Care of Your Dog?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Extra: Samin Nosrat Always Wanted to Be Famous
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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530. What's Wrong with Being a One-Hit Wonder?
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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529. Can Our Surroundings Make Us Smarter?
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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528. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life is Meaningless and Amazing
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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527. Can Adam Smith Fix Our Economy?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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526. Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Freakonomics Radio Needs Your Help
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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525. In Search of the Real Adam Smith
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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524. How Important Is Breastfeeding, Really?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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523. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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522. Is Google Getting Worse?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The Most Interesting Fruit in the World (Ep. 375 Update)
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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521. I’m Your Biggest Fan!
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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520. The Unintended Consequences of Working from Home
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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519. Has Globalization Failed?
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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518. Are Personal Finance Gurus Giving You Bad Advice?
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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517. Are M.B.A.s to Blame for Wage Stagnation?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears (Ep. 439 Update)
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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516. Nuclear Power Isn’t Perfect. Is It Good Enough?
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Extra: Ken Burns | People I (Mostly) Admire
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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515. When You Pray to God Online, Who Else Is Listening?
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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This Is Your Brain on Pollution (Ep. 472 Update)
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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514. Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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513. Should Public Transit Be Free?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Why Is U.S. Media So Negative? (Ep. 477 Replay)
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism (Ep. 470 Replay)
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not (Ep. 469 Replay)
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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512. Does Philosophy Still Matter?
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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511. Why Did You Marry That Person?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later (Ep. 479 Replay)
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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510. What Problems Does Crypto Solve, Anyway?
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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509. Are N.F.T.s All Scams?
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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508. Does the Crypto Crash Mean the Blockchain Is Over?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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507. 103 Pieces of Advice That May or May Not Work
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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506. What Is Sportswashing (and Does It Work)?
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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505. Did Domestic Violence Really Spike During the Pandemic?
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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504. Introducing “Off Leash”
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May 26, 2022 |
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503. What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men?
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May 19, 2022 |
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Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Ep. 384 Update)
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May 12, 2022 |
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502. “I Don’t Think the Country Is Turning Away From College.”
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May 05, 2022 |
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501. The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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500. What Exactly Is College For?
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China — and How About Russia? (Ep. 481 Update)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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499. Don't Worry, Be Tacky
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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498. In the 1890s, the Best-Selling Car Was … Electric
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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497. Can the Big Bad Wolf Save Your Life?
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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How to Change Your Mind (Ep. 379 Update)
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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496. Do Unions Still Work?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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495. Why Are There So Many Bad Bosses?
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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494. Why Do Most Ideas Fail to Scale?
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids? (Ep. 475 Update)
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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493. Why Does the Most Monotonous Job in the World Pay $1 Million?
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Are You Ready for a Fresh Start? (Ep. 455 Replay)
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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492. How Did a Hayfield Become One of America’s Hottest Cities?
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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491. Why Is Everyone Moving to Dallas?
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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490. What Do Broken-Hearted Knitters, Urinating Goalkeepers, and the C.I.A. Have in Common?
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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489. Is “Toxic Positivity” a Thing?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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488. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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487. Is It Okay to Have a Party Yet?
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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486. “The Art Market Is in Massive Disruption.”
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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485. “I’ve Been Working My Ass Off for You to Make that Profit?”
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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484. “A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.”
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis? (Ep. 444 Replay)
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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483. What’s Wrong With Shortcuts?
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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482. Is Venture Capital the Secret Sauce of the American Economy?
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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481. Is the U.S. Really Less Corrupt Than China?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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480. How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy?
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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479. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting: 10 Years Later
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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478. How Can We Break Our Addiction to Contempt?
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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477. Why Is U.S. Media So Negative?
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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That’s a Great Question! (Ep. 192 Rebroadcast)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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“This Didn't End the Way It’s Supposed to End.” (Bonus)
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Sep 27, 2021 |
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476. What Are the Police for, Anyway?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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475. Why Does the Richest Country in the World Have So Many Poor Kids?
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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474. All You Need Is Nudge
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”? (Ep. 407 Rebroadcast)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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473. These Jobs Were Not Posted on ZipRecruiter
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Reasons to Be Cheerful (Ep. 417 Rebroadcast)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
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472. This Is Your Brain on Pollution
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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471. Mayor Pete and Elaine Chao Hit the Road
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet (Ep. 346 Rebroadcast)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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470. The Pros and Cons of America’s (Extreme) Individualism
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Jul 22, 2021 |
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469. The U.S. Is Just Different — So Let’s Stop Pretending We’re Not
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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468. Nap Time for Everyone!
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Ep. 289 Rebroadcast)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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467. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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466. She’s From the Government, and She’s Here to Help
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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465. Introducing a New “Freakonomics of Medicine” Podcast
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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464. Will Work-from-Home Work Forever?
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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463. How to Get Anyone to Do Anything
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May 27, 2021 |
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These Shoes Are Killing Me! (Ep. 296 Rebroadcast)
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May 20, 2021 |
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462. The Future of New York City Is in Question. Could Andrew Yang Be the Answer?
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May 13, 2021 |
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461. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse
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May 06, 2021 |
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460. The True Story of the Minimum-Wage Fight
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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459. Let’s Be Blunt: Marijuana Is a Boon for Older Workers
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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458. How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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457. Is Dialysis a Test Case of Medicare for All?
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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456. How to Fix the Hot Mess of U.S. Healthcare
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405 Rebroadcast)
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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How Does New York City Keep Reinventing Itself? (Bonus)
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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455. Are You Ready for a Fresh Start?
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Mar 18, 2021 |
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454. Should Traffic Lights Be Abolished?
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Am I Boring You? (Ep. 225 Rebroadcast)
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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452. Jeff Immelt Knows He Let You Down
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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451. Can I Ask You a Ridiculously Personal Question?
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Feb 11, 2021 |
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450. How to Be Better at Death
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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449. How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research
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Jan 28, 2021 |
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448. The Downside of Disgust
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Jan 21, 2021 |
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447. How Much Do We Really Care About Children?
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Jan 14, 2021 |
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446. “We Get All Our Great Stuff from Europe — Including Witch Hunting.”
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Jan 07, 2021 |
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Trust Me (Ep. 266 Rebroadcast)
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Dec 31, 2020 |
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445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
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Dec 24, 2020 |
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444. How Do You Cure a Compassion Crisis?
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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443. A Sneak Peek at Biden’s Top Economist
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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PLAYBACK (2015): Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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442. Is it Too Late for General Motors to Go Electric?
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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441. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital)
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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440. Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 1: TV)
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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439. Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears
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Nov 12, 2020 |
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438. How to Succeed by Being Authentic (Hint: Carefully)
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Why the Left Had to Steal the Right’s Dark-Money Playbook
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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437. Many Businesses Thought They Were Insured for a Pandemic. They Weren’t.
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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435. Why Are Cities (Still) So Expensive?
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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434. Is New York City Over?
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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“Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Ken Jennings
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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433. How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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432. When Your Safety Becomes My Danger
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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“One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From” | People I (Mostly) Admire: Kerwin Charles
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is? (Ep. 408 Rebroadcast)
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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What if Your Company Had No Rules?
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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431. Why Can’t Schools Get What the N.F.L. Has?
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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"I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is” | People I (Mostly) Admire Ep. 2: Mayim Bialik
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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America’s Hidden Duopoly (Ep. 356 Rebroadcast)
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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430. Will a Covid-19 Vaccine Change the Future of Medical Research?
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Introducing “People I (Mostly) Admire"
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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The Economics of Sports Gambling (Ep. 388 Rebroadcast)
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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429. Is Economic Growth the Wrong Goal?
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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428. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rain Forest
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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427. The Pros and Cons of Reparations
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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426. Should America (and FIFA) Pay Reparations?
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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425. Remembrance of Economic Crises Past
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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424. How to Make Your Own Luck
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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423. The Doctor Will Zoom You Now
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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422. Introducing "No Stupid Questions"
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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421. How to Prevent Another Great Depression
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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420. Which Jobs Will Come Back, and When?
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Jun 04, 2020 |
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How to Make Meetings Less Terrible (Ep. 389 Rebroadcast)
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May 28, 2020 |
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419. 68 Ways to Be Better at Life
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May 21, 2020 |
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418. What Will College Look Like in the Fall (and Beyond)?
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May 14, 2020 |
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417. Reasons to Be Cheerful
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May 07, 2020 |
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416. How Do You Reopen a Country?
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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415. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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414. Will Covid-19 Spark a Cold War (or Worse) With China?
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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413. Who Gets the Ventilator?
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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412. What Happens When Everyone Stays Home to Eat?
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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411. Is $2 Trillion the Right Medicine for a Sick Economy?
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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410. What Does Covid-19 Mean for Cities (and Marriages)?
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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409. The Side Effects of Social Distancing
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373 Rebroadcast)
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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408. Does Anyone Really Know What Socialism Is?
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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407. Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”?
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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406. Can You Hear Me Now?
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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405. Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet)
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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404. Does the President Matter as Much as You Think?
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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How the San Francisco 49ers Stopped Being Losers (Ep. 350 Update)
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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403. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 2: “It’s Not a Death Sentence”
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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402. The Opioid Tragedy, Part 1: “We’ve Addicted an Entire Generation”
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing (Rebroadcast)
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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The Zero-Minute Workout (Rebroadcast)
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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401. How Many Prince Charleses Can There Be in One Room?
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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Why Is This Man Running for President? (Update)
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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400. How to Hate Taxes a Little Bit Less
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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399. Honey, I Grew the Economy
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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How to Change Your Mind (Rebroadcast)
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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398. The Truth About the Vaping Crisis
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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397. How to Save $32 Million in One Hour
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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396. Why Does Tipping Still Exist?
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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395. Speak Softly and Carry Big Data
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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394. Does Hollywood Still Have a Princess Problem?
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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393. Can Britain Get Its “Great” Back?
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Oct 17, 2019 |
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392. The Prime Minister Who Cried Brexit
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Oct 10, 2019 |
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391. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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390. Fed Up
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Sep 26, 2019 |
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389. How to Make Meetings Less Terrible
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Sep 19, 2019 |
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Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be (Rebroadcast)
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Sep 12, 2019 |
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388. The Economics of Sports Gambling
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Sep 05, 2019 |
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The Future of Meat (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s? (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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387. Hello, My Name Is Marijuana Pepsi!
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast )
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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386. How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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America’s Hidden Duopoly (Rebroadcast)
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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385. What Do Nancy Pelosi, Taylor Swift, and Serena Williams Have in Common?
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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384. Abortion and Crime, Revisited
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast )
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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383. The Zero-Minute Workout
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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382. How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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381. Long-Term Thinking in a Start-Up Town
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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380. Notes From an Imperfect Paradise
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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379. How to Change Your Mind
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May 30, 2019 |
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Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It (Rebroadcast)
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May 23, 2019 |
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378. 23andMe (and You, and Everyone Else)
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May 16, 2019 |
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377. The $1.5 Trillion Question-How to fix student loan debt?
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May 09, 2019 |
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376. The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting
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May 02, 2019 |
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The Invisible Paw (Rebroadcast)
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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375. The Most Interesting Fruit in the World
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Apr 18, 2019 |
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374. How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)
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Apr 11, 2019 |
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373. Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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372. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?”
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant (Update)
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Mar 21, 2019 |
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371. A Free-Trade Democrat in the Trump White House
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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370. How to Fail Like a Pro
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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369. A Good Idea Is Not Good Enough
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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368. Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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367. The Future of Meat
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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366. This Economist Predicted the Last Crisis. What’s the Next One?
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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Extra: Domonique Foxworth Full Interview
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Feb 02, 2019 |
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365. Not Just Another Labor Force
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Extra: Mark Cuban Full Interview
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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364. Inside the Sports-Industrial Complex
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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Extra: Mark Teixeira Full Interview
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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363. Think Like a Winner
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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Hacking the World Bank (Update)
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Jan 12, 2019 |
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362. Why Is This Man Running for President?
|
Jan 10, 2019 |
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How to Be Happy (Rebroadcast)
|
Jan 03, 2019 |
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How to Win Games and Beat People (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 27, 2018 |
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People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 20, 2018 |
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Freakonomics Radio Live: “The World’s a Mess. But Oysters, They Hold it Down.”
|
Dec 15, 2018 |
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Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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Freakonomics Radio Live: “We Thought of a Way to Manipulate Your Perception of Time.”
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Dec 15, 2018 |
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361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Could Have Been a Pigeon.”
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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360. Is the Protestant Work Ethic Real?
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified? (Rebroadcast)
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Nov 22, 2018 |
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358. Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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357. Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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356. America’s Hidden Duopoly
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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Extra: Elvis Costello Full Interview
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Oct 27, 2018 |
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355. Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)?
|
Oct 25, 2018 |
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Extra: Jeremy Lin Full Interview
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Oct 20, 2018 |
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354. How to Be Creative
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Oct 18, 2018 |
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353. How to Optimize Your Apology
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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352. Can This Man Stop a Trade War?
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Extra: Shawn Johnson Full Interview
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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351. Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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Extra: Full Interviews With Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Staley, Mike McGlinchey, and Kyle Juszczyk
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Sep 23, 2018 |
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350. How to Stop Being a Loser
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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349. How Sports Became Us
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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348. Is the Government More Entrepreneurial Than You Think?
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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347. Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant
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Aug 30, 2018 |
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346. Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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345. How to Be Happy
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Aug 16, 2018 |
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344. Who Decides How Much a Life Is Worth?
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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A Conversation With PepsiCo C.E.O. Indra Nooyi (Ep. 316 Update)
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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343. An Astronaut, a Catalan, and Two Linguists Walk Into a Bar…
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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342. Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean?
|
Jul 26, 2018 |
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341. Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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340. People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard.
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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339. The Future of Freakonomics Radio
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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In Praise of Incrementalism (Rebroadcast)
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Jun 28, 2018 |
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In Praise of Maintenance (Rebroadcast)
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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338. How to Catch World Cup Fever
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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337. How to Build a Smart City
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Rebroadcast)
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May 31, 2018 |
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336. The Most Vilified Industry in America Is Also the Most Charitable
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May 24, 2018 |
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335. Does Doing Good Give You License to Be Bad?
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May 17, 2018 |
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334. 5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing
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May 10, 2018 |
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Evolution, Accelerated (Rebroadcast)
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May 03, 2018 |
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333. The Most Ambitious Thing Humans Have Ever Attempted
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Apr 26, 2018 |
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332. Why the Trump Tax Cuts Are Terrible/Awesome (Part 2)
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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331. Why the Trump Tax Cuts are Awesome/Terrible (Part 1)
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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330. Extra: Ray Dalio Full Interview
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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329. The Invisible Paw
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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328. Extra: Mark Zuckerberg Full Interview
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Rebroadcast)
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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327. Extra: Carol Bartz Full Interview
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money (Rebroadcast)
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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326. Extra: Jack Welch Full Interview
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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325. How to Train Your Dragon Child
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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324. Extra: Satya Nadella Full Interview
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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323. Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It
|
Mar 08, 2018 |
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322. Extra: David Rubenstein Full Interview
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late? (Rebroadcast)
|
Mar 01, 2018 |
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321. Extra: Richard Branson Full Interview
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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320. Letting Go
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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319. After the Glass Ceiling, a Glass Cliff
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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318. It’s Your Problem Now
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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317. What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap?
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl (Rebroadcast)
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Feb 03, 2018 |
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316. “I Wasn’t Stupid Enough to Say This Could Be Done Overnight”
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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315. How to Become a C.E.O.
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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314. What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?
|
Jan 18, 2018 |
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313. How to Be a Modern Democrat — and Win
|
Jan 11, 2018 |
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Why Is My Life So Hard? (Rebroadcast)
|
Jan 04, 2018 |
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Trust Me (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 28, 2017 |
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Make Me a Match (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 21, 2017 |
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312. Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F.
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?
|
Dec 07, 2017 |
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310. Are We Running Out of Ideas?
|
Nov 30, 2017 |
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Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)
|
Nov 23, 2017 |
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309. Nurses to the Rescue!
|
Nov 16, 2017 |
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308. How Can I Do the Most Social Good With $100? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
|
Nov 09, 2017 |
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Why Is There So Much Ground Beef in the World? (Special Feature)
|
Nov 07, 2017 |
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307. Thinking Is Expensive. Who’s Supposed to Pay for It?
|
Nov 02, 2017 |
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306. How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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305. The Demonization of Gluten
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?
|
Oct 12, 2017 |
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“Tell Me Something I Don't Know” on the topic of Behavior Change (Special Feature)
|
Oct 01, 2017 |
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303. Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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302. Why Learn Esperanto?
|
Sep 26, 2017 |
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301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
|
Sep 21, 2017 |
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300. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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299. "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"
|
Sep 07, 2017 |
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Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 31, 2017 |
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Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 24, 2017 |
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Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 17, 2017 |
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What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 10, 2017 |
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298. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)
|
Aug 03, 2017 |
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297. The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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296. These Shoes Are Killing Me!
|
Jul 20, 2017 |
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295. When Helping Hurts
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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294. The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage
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Jul 06, 2017 |
|
The Harvard President Will See You Now (Rebroadcast)
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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293. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 2)
|
Jun 23, 2017 |
|
292. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" on the topic of Rivalry
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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291. Evolution, Accelerated
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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290. He’s One of the Most Famous Political Operatives in America. America Just Doesn’t Know It Yet.
|
Jun 08, 2017 |
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289. How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns?
|
Jun 01, 2017 |
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288. Are the Rich Really Less Generous Than the Poor?
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May 25, 2017 |
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287. Hoopers! Hoopers! Hoopers!
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May 18, 2017 |
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286. How Big is My Penis? (And Other Things We Ask Google)
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May 11, 2017 |
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Food + Science = Victory! (Rebroadcast)
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May 04, 2017 |
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285. There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified?
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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284. Is Income Inequality Inevitable? (Earth 2.0 Series)
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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283. What Would Our Economy Look Like? (Earth 2.0 Series)
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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282. Could Solving This One Problem Solve All the Others?
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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281. Big Returns from Thinking Small
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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280. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” on the topic of Collections.
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Mar 28, 2017 |
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How Safe Is Your Job? (Rebroadcast)
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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279. Why Is My Life So Hard?
|
Mar 16, 2017 |
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278. Chuck E. Cheese’s: Where a Kid Can Learn Price Theory
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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277. The Taboo Trifecta
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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276. No Hollywood Ending for the Visual-Effects Industry
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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275. Professor Hendryx vs. Big Coal
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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How to Get More Grit in Your Life
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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274. An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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273. Did China Eat America’s Jobs?
|
Jan 26, 2017 |
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Is the American Dream Really Dead?
|
Jan 19, 2017 |
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272. Trevor Noah Has a Lot to Say
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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271. The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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How to Become Great at Just About Anything (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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How to Be More Productive (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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270. Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations
|
Dec 08, 2016 |
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268. Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6
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Dec 01, 2016 |
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The No-Tipping Point (Rebroadcast)
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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267. How to Make a Bad Decision
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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Introducing Stephen J. Dubner's new podcast, "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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266. Trust Me
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast )
|
Nov 09, 2016 |
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265. The White House Gets Into the Nudge Business
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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264. In Praise of Incrementalism
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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263. In Praise of Maintenance
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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262. This Is Your Brain on Podcasts
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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How To Win A Nobel Prize (Rebroadcast)
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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261. Why Are We Still Using Cash?
|
Sep 29, 2016 |
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260. Has the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship?
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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259. Ten Signs You Might Be a Libertarian
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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258. Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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257. The Future (Probably) Isn’t as Scary as You Think
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset? (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 25, 2016 |
|
Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 18, 2016 |
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256. What Are You Waiting For?
|
Aug 11, 2016 |
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Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees? (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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255. Ten Ideas to Make Politics Less Rotten
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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254. What Are Gender Barriers Made Of?
|
Jul 21, 2016 |
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253. Is the Internet Being Ruined?
|
Jul 14, 2016 |
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252. Confessions of a Pothole Politician
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast )
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast)
|
Jun 23, 2016 |
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Why Do We Really Follow the News? (Rebroadcast)
|
Jun 16, 2016 |
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Time to Take Back the Toilet
|
Jun 09, 2016 |
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251. Are We in a Mattress-Store Bubble?
|
Jun 09, 2016 |
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250. Why Does Everyone Hate Flying? And Other Questions Only a Pilot Can Answer
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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249. The Longest Long Shot
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May 26, 2016 |
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248. How to Be Tim Ferriss
|
May 19, 2016 |
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247. How to Win Games and Beat People
|
May 12, 2016 |
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246. How to Get More Grit in Your Life
|
May 05, 2016 |
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245. Being Malcolm Gladwell
|
May 02, 2016 |
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244. How to Become Great at Just About Anything
|
Apr 28, 2016 |
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243. How to Be More Productive
|
Apr 21, 2016 |
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242. Is the World Ready for a Guaranteed Basic Income?
|
Apr 14, 2016 |
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241. Are Payday Loans Really as Evil as People Say?
|
Apr 07, 2016 |
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The Economics of Sleep, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)
|
Mar 31, 2016 |
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The Economics of Sleep, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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240. Yes, the American Economy Is in a Funk -- But Not for the Reasons You Think
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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239. The No-Tipping Point
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Mar 11, 2016 |
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238. The United States of Cory Booker
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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237. Ask Not What Your Podcast Can Do for You
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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236. How Can This Possibly Be True?
|
Feb 18, 2016 |
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235. Who Needs Handwriting?
|
Feb 11, 2016 |
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How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps (Rebroadcast)
|
Feb 04, 2016 |
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Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem? (Rebroadcast)
|
Jan 28, 2016 |
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234. Do Boycotts Work?
|
Jan 21, 2016 |
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233. How to Be Less Terrible at Predicting the Future
|
Jan 14, 2016 |
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232. The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap
|
Jan 07, 2016 |
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When Willpower Isn’t Enough (Rebroadcast)
|
Dec 31, 2015 |
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Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 24, 2015 |
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231. Is Migration a Basic Human Right?
|
Dec 17, 2015 |
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230. The Cheeseburger Diet
|
Dec 10, 2015 |
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229. Ben Bernanke Gives Himself a Grade
|
Dec 03, 2015 |
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Why Do People Keep Having Children? (Rebroadcast)
|
Nov 26, 2015 |
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228. Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?
|
Nov 19, 2015 |
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227. Should Everyone Be in a Rock Band?
|
Nov 12, 2015 |
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226. Food + Science = Victory!
|
Nov 05, 2015 |
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225. Am I Boring You?
|
Oct 29, 2015 |
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How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying (Rebroadcast)
|
Oct 22, 2015 |
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224. How To Win A Nobel Prize
|
Oct 15, 2015 |
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223. Should Kids Pay Back Their Parents for Raising Them?
|
Oct 08, 2015 |
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222. Meet the Woman Who Said Women Can’t Have It All
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Oct 01, 2015 |
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221. How Did the Belt Win?
|
Sep 24, 2015 |
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220. “I Don't Know What You've Done With My Husband, But He's a Changed Man.”
|
Sep 17, 2015 |
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219. Preventing Crime for Pennies on the Dollar
|
Sep 10, 2015 |
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218. The Harvard President Will See You Now
|
Sep 03, 2015 |
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217. Are You Ready for a Glorious Sunset?
|
Aug 27, 2015 |
|
216. How to Make a Smart TV Ad
|
Aug 20, 2015 |
|
The Dangers of Safety (Rebroadcast)
|
Aug 13, 2015 |
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215. Why Do We Really Follow the News?
|
Aug 06, 2015 |
|
214. How to Create Suspense
|
Jul 30, 2015 |
|
213. Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush
|
Jul 23, 2015 |
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212. The Economics of Sleep, Part 2
|
Jul 16, 2015 |
|
211. The Economics of Sleep, Part 1
|
Jul 09, 2015 |
|
A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast)
|
Jul 02, 2015 |
|
210. Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees?
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Jun 25, 2015 |
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209. Make Me a Match
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Jun 18, 2015 |
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208. Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay
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Jun 11, 2015 |
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207. Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?
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Jun 04, 2015 |
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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (Rebroadcast)
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May 28, 2015 |
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Failure Is Your Friend (Rebroadcast)
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May 21, 2015 |
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206. Ten Years of Freakonomics
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May 14, 2015 |
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205. Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!
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May 07, 2015 |
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Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)
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Apr 30, 2015 |
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204. Nate Silver Says: “Everyone Is Kind of Weird”
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Apr 23, 2015 |
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203. Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend
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Apr 16, 2015 |
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202. How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?
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Apr 09, 2015 |
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201. How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?
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Apr 02, 2015 |
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The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)
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Mar 26, 2015 |
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What You Don’t Know About Online Dating (Rebroadcast)
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Mar 19, 2015 |
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200. When Willpower Isn’t Enough
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Mar 12, 2015 |
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199. This Idea Must Die
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Mar 05, 2015 |
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198. The Maddest Men of All
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Feb 26, 2015 |
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197. Hacking the World Bank
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Feb 19, 2015 |
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196. Is There a Better Way to Fight Terrorism?
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Feb 12, 2015 |
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195. How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?
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Feb 05, 2015 |
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194. How Safe Is Your Job?
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Jan 29, 2015 |
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193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip
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Jan 22, 2015 |
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192. That’s a Great Question!
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Jan 15, 2015 |
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191. Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?
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Jan 08, 2015 |
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What’s the “Best” Exercise? (Rebroadcast)
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Jan 01, 2015 |
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What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 25, 2014 |
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190. Time to Take Back the Toilet
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Dec 18, 2014 |
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The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 11, 2014 |
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189. How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps
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Dec 04, 2014 |
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188. Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?
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Nov 27, 2014 |
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187. The Man Who Would Be Everything
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Nov 20, 2014 |
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186. Why Do People Keep Having Children?
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Nov 13, 2014 |
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185. Should the U.S. Merge With Mexico?
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Nov 06, 2014 |
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184. What Can Vampires Teach Us About Economics?
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Oct 30, 2014 |
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183. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
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Oct 23, 2014 |
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182. How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?
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Oct 16, 2014 |
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How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten (Rebroadcast)
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Oct 09, 2014 |
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181. Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition
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Oct 02, 2014 |
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180. Fitness Apartheid
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Sep 25, 2014 |
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179. Outsiders by Design
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Sep 18, 2014 |
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178. How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying
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Sep 11, 2014 |
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177. Regulate This!
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Sep 04, 2014 |
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Who Runs the Internet? (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 28, 2014 |
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Parking Is Hell (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 21, 2014 |
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What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 14, 2014 |
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Should Tipping be Banned? (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 07, 2014 |
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How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast)
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Jul 31, 2014 |
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176. Does Religion Make You Happy?
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Jul 24, 2014 |
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175. Why You Should Bribe Your Kids
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Jul 17, 2014 |
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174. What Do King Solomon and David Lee Roth Have in Common?
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Jul 10, 2014 |
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173. A Better Way to Eat
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Jul 03, 2014 |
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172. How to Screen Job Applicants, Act Your Age, and Get Your Brain Off Autopilot
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Jun 26, 2014 |
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171. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Appetizer
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Jun 19, 2014 |
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170. Why America Doesn’t Love Soccer (Yet)
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Jun 12, 2014 |
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169. Failure Is Your Friend
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Jun 05, 2014 |
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The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast )
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May 29, 2014 |
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168. Think Like a Child
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May 22, 2014 |
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167. The Three Hardest Words in the English Language
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May 15, 2014 |
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166. How to Think Like a Freak -- and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
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May 08, 2014 |
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165. The Perfect Crime
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May 01, 2014 |
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164. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Avocado?
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Apr 24, 2014 |
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163. What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol?
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Apr 17, 2014 |
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162. “If Mayors Ruled the World”
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Apr 10, 2014 |
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161. How to Make People Quit Smoking
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Apr 03, 2014 |
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160. Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves It
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Mar 27, 2014 |
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Women Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)
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Mar 20, 2014 |
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159. “It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana”
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Mar 13, 2014 |
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158. Is Learning a Foreign Language Really Worth It?
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Mar 06, 2014 |
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157. Why Are Japanese Homes Disposable?
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Feb 27, 2014 |
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156. Why Marry? (Part 2)
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Feb 20, 2014 |
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155. Why Marry? (Part 1)
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Feb 13, 2014 |
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154. What You Don’t Know About Online Dating
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Feb 06, 2014 |
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153. Reasons to Not Be Ugly
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Jan 30, 2014 |
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152. Everybody Gossips (and That’s a Good Thing)
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Jan 23, 2014 |
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Fear Thy Nature (Rebroadcast)
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Jan 16, 2014 |
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151. Are We Ready to Legalize Drugs? And Other FREAK-Quently Asked Questions
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Jan 09, 2014 |
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150. What’s the “Best” Exercise?
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Jan 02, 2014 |
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Save Me From Myself (Rebroadcast)
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Dec 26, 2013 |
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149. Pontiff-icating on the Free-Market System
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Dec 19, 2013 |
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148. Are Gay Men Really Rich?
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Dec 12, 2013 |
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147. The Most Dangerous Machine
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Dec 05, 2013 |
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146. Fighting Poverty With Actual Evidence
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Nov 27, 2013 |
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145. What Do Skating Rinks, Ultimate Frisbee, and the World Have in Common?
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Nov 21, 2013 |
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144. Who Runs the Internet?
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Nov 14, 2013 |
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Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)
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Nov 07, 2013 |
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Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)
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Oct 31, 2013 |
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143. Why Bad Environmentalism Is Such an Easy Sell
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Oct 24, 2013 |
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142. The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat
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Oct 14, 2013 |
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141. How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten
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Oct 10, 2013 |
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140. How to Think About Money, Choose Your Hometown, and Buy an Electric Toothbrush
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Oct 03, 2013 |
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139. Would a Big Bucket of Cash Really Change Your Life?
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Sep 26, 2013 |
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The Economist’s Guide to Parenting (Rebroadcast)
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Sep 19, 2013 |
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138. Whatever Happened to the Carpal Tunnel Epidemic?
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Sep 12, 2013 |
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The Suicide Paradox (Rebroadcast)
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Sep 05, 2013 |
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137. Who Are the Most Successful Immigrants in the World?
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Aug 29, 2013 |
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The Folly of Prediction (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 22, 2013 |
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136. The Middle of Everywhere
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Aug 15, 2013 |
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The Church of "Scionology" (Rebroadcast)
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Aug 08, 2013 |
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135. Do Baby Girls Cause Divorce?
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Aug 01, 2013 |
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The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast)
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Jul 22, 2013 |
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134. Government Employees Gone Wild
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Jul 18, 2013 |
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133. A Burger a Day
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Jul 11, 2013 |
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132. Jane Austen, Game Theorist
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Jul 03, 2013 |
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Legacy of a Jerk (Rebroadcast)
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Jun 27, 2013 |
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131. Do You Really Want to Know Your Future?
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Jun 20, 2013 |
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130. Why Family and Business Don’t Mix
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Jun 12, 2013 |
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129. Should Tipping be Banned?
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Jun 03, 2013 |
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128. Baby, You Can Program My Car
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May 29, 2013 |
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127. Can You Be Too Smart for Your Own Good? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
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May 23, 2013 |
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The Hidden Cost of False Alarms (Rebroadcast)
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May 15, 2013 |
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126. What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common?
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May 09, 2013 |
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125. It’s Crowded at the Top
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May 01, 2013 |
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124. Running to Do Evil
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Apr 25, 2013 |
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123. Help Wanted. No Smokers Need Apply
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Apr 17, 2013 |
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122. How Much Does Your Name Matter?
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Apr 08, 2013 |
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121. The Tax Man Nudgeth
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Apr 03, 2013 |
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120. 100 Ways to Fight Obesity
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Mar 27, 2013 |
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119. How Money Is March Madness?
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Mar 21, 2013 |
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118. Parking Is Hell
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Mar 13, 2013 |
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117. When Is a Negative a Positive?
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Mar 06, 2013 |
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116. Women Are Not Men
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Feb 24, 2013 |
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115. The Downside of More Miles Per Gallon
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Feb 20, 2013 |
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114. How to Think About Guns
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Feb 13, 2013 |
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113. Sure, I Remember That
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Feb 06, 2013 |
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112. Would You Let a Coin Toss Decide Your Future?
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Jan 30, 2013 |
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111. Introducing “Freakonomics Experiments”
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Jan 23, 2013 |
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110. Who Owns the Words That Come Out of Your Mouth?
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Jan 16, 2013 |
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109. How to Live Longer
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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108. How Did “Freakonomics” Get Its Name? … and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
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Jan 02, 2013 |
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107. How Much Does a Good Boss Really Matter?
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Dec 26, 2012 |
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106. The House of Dreams
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Dec 19, 2012 |
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105. Have a Very Homo Economicus Christmas
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Dec 12, 2012 |
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104. The Things They Taught Me
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Dec 05, 2012 |
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103. Free-conomics
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Nov 28, 2012 |
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102. I Consult, Therefore I Am
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Nov 21, 2012 |
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101. Mass Transit Hysteria
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Nov 14, 2012 |
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100. Our 100th Episode!
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Nov 05, 2012 |
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99. How to Maximize Your Halloween Candy Haul
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Oct 31, 2012 |
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98. We the Sheeple
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Oct 24, 2012 |
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97. Lying to Ourselves
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Oct 17, 2012 |
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96. The Cobra Effect
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Oct 10, 2012 |
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95. Why America’s Economic Growth May Be (Shh!) Over
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Oct 03, 2012 |
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94. The Tale of the $15 Tomato
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Sep 23, 2012 |
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93. Why Online Poker Should Be Legal
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Sep 19, 2012 |
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92. Fear Thy Nature
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Sep 12, 2012 |
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91. Can Selling Beer Cut Down on Public Drunkenness?
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Sep 05, 2012 |
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90. How Deep Is the Shadow Economy?
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Aug 29, 2012 |
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89. There’s Cake in the Breakroom!
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Aug 22, 2012 |
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88. Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2
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Aug 15, 2012 |
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87. The Season of Death
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Aug 08, 2012 |
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86. Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1
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Jul 29, 2012 |
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85. Olympian Economics
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Jul 25, 2012 |
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84. Legacy of a Jerk
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Jul 18, 2012 |
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83. What's Wrong With Cash for Grades?
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Jul 10, 2012 |
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82. Please Steal My Car
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Jul 04, 2012 |
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81. Star-Spangled Banter?
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Jun 26, 2012 |
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80. Riding the Herd Mentality
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Jun 20, 2012 |
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79. A Cheap Employee Is … a Cheap Employee
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Jun 13, 2012 |
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78. You Eat What You Are, Part 2
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Jun 06, 2012 |
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77. Playing the Nerd Card
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May 30, 2012 |
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76. You Eat What You Are, Part 1
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May 23, 2012 |
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75. Retirement Kills
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May 16, 2012 |
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74. Soul Possession
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May 07, 2012 |
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73. A Rose By Any Other Distance
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May 02, 2012 |
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72. Lottery Loopholes and Deadly Doctors
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Apr 25, 2012 |
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71. Is Good Corporate Citizenship Also Good for the Bottom Line?
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Apr 18, 2012 |
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70. Eating and Tweeting
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Apr 11, 2012 |
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69. The Hidden Cost of False Alarms
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Apr 03, 2012 |
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68. The Power of the President -- and the Thumb
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Mar 28, 2012 |
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67. The Patent Gap
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Mar 22, 2012 |
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66. Show and Yell
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Mar 14, 2012 |
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65. It’s Not the President, Stupid
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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64. The Days of Wine and Mouses
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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63. The Dilbert Index?
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Feb 22, 2012 |
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62. How Biased Is Your Media?
|
Feb 15, 2012 |
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61. Does This Recession Make Me Look Fat?
|
Feb 08, 2012 |
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60. Save Me From Myself
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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59. The Hidden Side of the Super Bowl
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Jan 25, 2012 |
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58. What Do Hand-Washing and Financial Illiteracy Have in Common?
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Jan 19, 2012 |
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57. Does Money Really Buy Elections?
|
Jan 11, 2012 |
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56. Why Is “I Don’t Know” So Hard to Say?
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Jan 04, 2012 |
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55. The Perils of Drunk Walking
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Dec 27, 2011 |
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54. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (Encore)
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Dec 21, 2011 |
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53. How American Food Got So Bad
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Dec 13, 2011 |
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52. Weird Recycling
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Dec 02, 2011 |
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51. What Makes a Donor Donate?
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Nov 29, 2011 |
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50. The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It?
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Nov 22, 2011 |
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49. Unnatural Turkeys
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Nov 16, 2011 |
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48. Boo…Who?
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Nov 08, 2011 |
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47. Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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46. Misadventures in Baby-Making
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Oct 25, 2011 |
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45. Those Cheating Teachers!
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Oct 18, 2011 |
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44. Where Have All the Hitchhikers Gone?
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Oct 10, 2011 |
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43. The Decline and Fall of Violence
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Oct 05, 2011 |
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42. The Upside of Quitting
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Sep 28, 2011 |
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41. The Folly of Prediction
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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40. The Suicide Paradox
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Aug 31, 2011 |
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39. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting
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Aug 16, 2011 |
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38. The Church of "Scionology"
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Aug 03, 2011 |
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37. Mouse in the Salad
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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36. Hey Baby, Is That a Prius You're Driving?
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Jul 06, 2011 |
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35. Live From St. Paul!
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Jun 22, 2011 |
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34. Things Our Fathers Gave Us
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Jun 08, 2011 |
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33. To Catch a Fugitive
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May 25, 2011 |
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32. Growing Up Buffett
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May 11, 2011 |
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31. Gambling With Your Life
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Apr 27, 2011 |
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30. Does College Still Matter? And Other Freaky Questions Answered ...
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Apr 13, 2011 |
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29. Smarter Kids at 10 Bucks a Pop
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Apr 06, 2011 |
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28. Why Can’t We Predict Earthquakes?
|
Mar 30, 2011 |
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27. Death by Fire? Probably Not
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Mar 23, 2011 |
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26. The Health of Nations
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Mar 16, 2011 |
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25. Is Twitter a Two-Way Street?
|
Mar 09, 2011 |
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24. The Power of Poop
|
Mar 02, 2011 |
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23. Millionaires vs. Billionaires
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Feb 24, 2011 |
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22. Why Cities Rock
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Feb 17, 2011 |
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21. Bring on the Pain!
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Feb 09, 2011 |
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20. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 2)
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Feb 02, 2011 |
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19. Waiter, There’s a Physicist in My Soup! (Part 1)
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Jan 26, 2011 |
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18. Freakonomics FAQ, No. 1
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Jan 19, 2011 |
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17. Trashed
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Jan 13, 2011 |
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16. Exit Interview: Schools Chancellor, NYC
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Jan 05, 2011 |
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15. You Say Repugnant, I Say … Let's Do It!
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Dec 29, 2010 |
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14. Do More Expensive Wines Taste Better?
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Dec 15, 2010 |
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13. The "No-Lose Lottery," Part 2
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Dec 01, 2010 |
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12. Is America Ready for a "No-Lose Lottery"?
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Nov 17, 2010 |
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11. How Much Does the President of the U.S. Really Matter?
|
Nov 03, 2010 |
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10. The NFL's Best Real Estate Isn't For Sale. Yet.
|
Oct 28, 2010 |
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9. Reading, Rockets, and 'Rithmetic
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Oct 21, 2010 |
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8. Who Stole All the Runs in Major League Baseball?
|
Oct 07, 2010 |
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7. Two Book Authors and a Microphone
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Sep 30, 2010 |
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6. Why the World Cup Is an Economist's Dream
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Jun 10, 2010 |
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5. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System?
|
May 13, 2010 |
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4. Faking It
|
Apr 13, 2010 |
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3. What Would the World Look Like if Economists Were in Charge?
|
Mar 24, 2010 |
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2. Is America's Obesity Epidemic For Real?
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Feb 26, 2010 |
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1. The Dangers of Safety
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Feb 06, 2010 |