465. Introducing a New “Freakonomics of ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan talks about confidence, luck, and why it takes 35 drafts to get to the finish line. If you'd like to see the video version of Better in Person, you can watch it on YouTube or Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz compan ... Show More

The world’s great museums are full of art and artifacts that were plundered during an era when plunder was the norm. Now there’s a push to return these works to their rightful owners. Sounds simple, right? It's not. (Part 2 of an updated series originally published in 2023.) SOUR ... Show More

When he joined the Del Fuegos, his big brother’s band, all Warren knew how to play was a record player. Things went great for a while — and then it all fell apart. So how did he wind up writing definitive books on Springsteen and Tom Petty? If you'd like to see the video version ... Show More

How can a marathon be dangerous even if you don’t run the race? Does your doctor follow medical advice any better than you do? Just how dangerous was it to go to a birthday party at the height of the pandemic? These are the kinds of questions that intrigue Dr. Bapu Jena, a rare d ... Show More

In this pilot episode of a new “Freakonomics of Medicine” podcast, when host Dr. Bapu Jena misses his wife’s 5K run, he sets out to study how road closures and detours on big race days affect people with medical emergencies. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswi ... Show More

<p>He’s a Harvard physician and economist who just started a third job: host of the new podcast <em>Freakonomics, M.D.</em> He’s also Steve’s former student. The two discuss why medicine should embrace econ-style research, the ethics of human-challenge trials, and Bapu’s role in ... Show More

Host Bapu Jena is an economist and medical doctor whose latest research measures the link between birthdays and Covid. He explains his team’s findings, explores the role that kids’ parties may have played, reveals whether politics made a difference, and convinces a Zoom magician ... Show More

Once upon a time, Bapu Jena was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. His most interesting teacher? The economist Steve Levitt. This week on Freakonomics, M.D., a replay of a conversation between Steve and Bapu from Steve’s podcast, People I (Mostly) Admire, where they ... Show More

Dr. Iyad Alnahhas, producer, introduces the new podcast. 

Doctor Mike joins us for our second NYC podcast! Mike is a practising doctor & YouTuber on a mission to bust medical myths and industry fear mongering! Such an intellectual man, full of a lot knowledge. Of course, we couldn't have him on without asking him about the Lunchly drama ... Show More

The first Unlocking Us podcast is here! Along with the excitement of sending this into the world, I’m feeling equal doses of fear, awkwardness, and vulnerability. In this episode, I talk about my strategy for staying in tough first times versus tapping out and shutting down. When ... Show More

This podcast series is released in conjunction with an acclaimed new docuseries — out now — about the journey and thought of Yanis Varoufakis, "In The Eye Of The Storm — The Political Odyssey Of Yanis Varoufakis". To watch the series, go to: http://www.eyeofthestorm.infoThis is t ... Show More