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How to Succeed at Failing, Part 4: Extreme Resiliency (Update)
Episode 564
Everyone makes mistakes. How do we learn from them? Lessons from the classroom, the Air Force, and the world’s deadliest infectious disease. (Part four of a four-part series.)
SOURCES:Will Coleman, f…
Published on 3 months ago
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 3: Grit vs. Quit (Update)
Episode 563
Giving up can be painful. That's why we need to talk about it. Today: stories about glitchy apps, leaky paint cans, broken sculptures — and a quest for the perfect bowl of ramen. (Part three of a fou…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 2: Life and Death (Update)
Episode 562
In medicine, failure can be catastrophic. It can also produce discoveries that save millions of lives. Tales from the front line, the lab, and the I.T. department. (Part two of a four-part series.)
S…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
How to Succeed at Failing, Part 1: The Chain of Events (Update)
Episode 561
We tend to think of tragedies as a single terrible moment, rather than the result of multiple bad decisions. Can this pattern be reversed? We try — with stories about wildfires, school shootings, and…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
632. When Did We All Start Watching Documentaries?
Episode 632
It used to be that making documentary films meant taking a vow of poverty (and obscurity). The streaming revolution changed that. Award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler talks to Stephen Dubner about cap…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
631. Will "3 Summers of Lincoln" Make It to Broadway?
Episode 631
It’s been in development for five years and has at least a year to go. On the eve of its out-of-town debut, the actor playing Lincoln quit. And the producers still need to raise another $15 million t…
Published on 4 months ago
Is It a Theater Piece or a Psychological Experiment? (Update)
Episode 92
In an episode from 2012, we looked at what Sleep No More and the Stanford Prison Experiment can tell us about who we really are.
SOURCES:Felix Barrett, artistic director of Punchdrunk.Steven Levitt, …
Published on 4 months ago
630. On Broadway, Nobody Knows Nothing
Episode 630
A hit like Hamilton can come from nowhere while a sure bet can lose $20 million in a flash. We speak with some of the biggest producers in the game — Sonia Friedman, Jeffrey Seller, Hal Luftig — and …
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?
Episode 629
It has become fiendishly expensive to produce, and has more competition than ever. And yet the believers still believe. Why? And does the world really want a new musical about ... Abraham Lincoln?! (…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
Episode 405
Why do so many promising solutions in education, medicine, and criminal justice fail to scale up into great policy? And can a new breed of “implementation scientists” crack the code?
SOURCES:Patti Ch…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago