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304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?
Episode 304
Smart government policies, good industrial relations, and high-end products have helped German manufacturing beat back the threats of globalization.
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8 years, 5 months ago
“Tell Me Something I Don't Know” on the topic of Behavior Change (Special Feature)
Stephen J. Dubner hosts an episode full of the world's most renowned behavior change experts, including Colin Camerer, Ayelet Fishbach, David Laibson…
8 years, 5 months ago
303. Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love
Episode 303
He's been U.S. Treasury Secretary, a chief economist for the Obama White House and the World Bank, and president of Harvard. He's one of the most bri…
8 years, 5 months ago
302. Why Learn Esperanto?
Episode 302
A language invented in the 19th century, and meant to be universal, it never really caught on. So why does a group of Esperantists from around the wo…
8 years, 5 months ago
301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
Episode 301
We explore votes for English, Indonesian, and … Esperanto! The search for a common language goes back millennia, but so much still gets lost in trans…
8 years, 5 months ago
300. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
Episode 300
There are 7,000 languages spoken on Earth. What are the costs — and benefits — of our modern-day Tower of Babel?
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8 years, 6 months ago
299. "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"
Episode 299
John Urschel was the only player in the N.F.L. simultaneously getting a math Ph.D. at M.I.T. But after a new study came out linking football to brain…
8 years, 6 months ago
Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
By some estimates, medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. How can that be? And what's to be done? Our third and final episode …
8 years, 6 months ago
Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)
How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on "dream patients" who aren'…
8 years, 6 months ago
Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)
We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. In the first episode of a three-part ser…
8 years, 6 months ago