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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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586. How Does the Lost World of Vienna Still Shape Our Lives?
From politics and economics to psychology and the arts, many of the modern ideas we take for granted emerged a century ago from a single European capital. In this episode of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, the historian Richard Cockett explores all those ideas — and how the arrival of fascism can ruin in a few years what took generations to build.
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Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)
Five years ago, we published an episode about the boom in home DNA testing kits, focusing on the high-flying firm 23andMe and its C.E.O. Anne Wojcicki. Their flight has been extremely bumpy since then. This update includes an additional interview with the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been investigating the firm’s collapse.
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Extra: Why Is 23andMe Going Under? (Update)
Five years ago, we published an episode about the boom in home DNA testing kits, focusing on the high-flying firm 23andMe and its C.E.O. Anne Wojcicki. Their flight has been extremely bumpy since then. This update includes an additional interview with the Wall Street Journal reporter who has been investigating the firm’s collapse.
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585. A Social Activist in Prime Minister’s Clothing
Justin Trudeau, facing record-low approval numbers, is doubling down on his progressive agenda. But he is so upbeat (and Canada-polite) that it’s easy to miss just how radical his vision is. Can he make it work?
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584. How to Pave the Road to Hell
So you want to help people? That’s great — but beware the law of unintended consequences. Three stories from the modern workplace.
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Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)
The psychologist Daniel Kahneman — a Nobel laureate and the author of “Thinking, Fast and Slow” — recently died at age 90. Along with his collaborator Amos Tversky, he changed how we all think about decision-making. The journalist Michael Lewis told the Kahneman-Tversky story in a 2016 book called "The Undoing Project." In this episode, Lewis explains why they had such a profound influence.
Customer Reviews
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Interesting, data rich but leaning left.
It’s getting more politically biased. A recent episode w a CNN host showed strong left bias, esp against Trump. Well, no shocker, it’s CNN. But even the hosts failure to differentiate between legal and illegal immigration was not what I expected. A previous episode on immigration reinforced this; must be an election year.
Too many good shows for me to just drop it. But it’s feeling like it’s run it’s course. We’ll see.
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Nearly always interesting and based on good research rather than just anecdotes or unsupported opinions. Old ones like the one on nurses, gluten and visual effects were terrific. But now new ones like google search and personal finance were even better. A few like they were mailed in, but those are mostly in the past. I have to comment on the Roland Fryer one on black america. How can you do this? You must know that any speaker who says anything against what BLM, WAPO or the others are reporting is going to be crushed. Whether I agree or not with Fryer, you and he are courageous. Good for you. Too many on the left and right have given up on journalism and objectivity in order to cater to their tribe. The ones on nurses, gluten and the visual effects industry were terrific; objective, surprising and fun. But every once in a while we get a Larry Summers (plodding and biased) or Trevor Noah (Larry without the plodding). Early on there were a few back to back that were just being mailed in and I considered unsubscribing, but they've gotten better and now this is one of my 7 go to podcasts.
I can’t follow the series shows
I want to listen to a 3 part series, however, the search takes you only to the first of the 3. How do you find the 2nd or 3rd parts of a series.