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by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
196 EPISODES
Aug 23
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Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great (Update)
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164. Unravelling the Universe, Again
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163. The Data Sleuth Taking on Shoddy Science
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Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second One (Update)
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162. Will We Solve the Climate Problem?
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161. How to Captivate an Audience
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Annie Duke Thinks You Should Quit (Update)
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160. How to Help Kids Succeed
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159. Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Manifesto for a Gift Economy
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Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence? (Update)
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158. Why Did Rome Fall — and Are We Next?
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157. The Deadliest Disease in Human History
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Abraham Verghese Thinks Medicine Can Do Better (Update)
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156. A Solution to America’s Gun Problem
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155. Helping People Die
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Yul Kwon: “Don't Try to Change Yourself All at Once.” (Update)
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154. Can Robots Get a Grip?
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153. We’re Not Getting Sicker — We’re Overdiagnosed
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Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars (Update)
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152. Hunting for the Origins of Life
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151. Neurobiologist, Philosopher, and Addict
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Jane Goodall Changed the Way We See Animals. She’s Not Done. (Replay)
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150. His Brilliant Videos Get Millions of Views. Why Don’t They Make Money?
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149. Stanford’s President Knows He Can’t Make Everyone Happy
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Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears (Update)
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148. How to Have Good Ideas
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147. Is Your Gut a Second Brain?
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Turning Work into Play (Update)
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146. Is There a Fair Way to Divide Us?
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145. Neil deGrasse Tyson Is Still Starstruck
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Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?” (Update)
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144. Feeling Sound and Hearing Color
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143. Why Are Boys and Men in Trouble?
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Nobel Laureate Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power (Replay)
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142. What’s Impacting American Workers?
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EXTRA: Using Data to Win Gold
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141. The Language of the Universe
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Drawing from Life (and Death) (Update)
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140. How to Breathe Better
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139. How PETA Made Radical Ideas Mainstream
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Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time (Update)
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138. Chris Anderson on the Power of TED
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EXTRA: Remembering Susan Wojcicki
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137. Richard Dawkins on God, Genes, and Murderous Baby Cuckoos
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What It Takes to Know Everything (Update)
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136. The World’s Most Controversial Ornithologist
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135. How to Grow a White Rhino
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Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.” (Replay)
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134. Why Do We Still Teach People to Calculate?
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133. Pay Attention! (Your Body Will Thank You)
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