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274. An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl
Episode 274
We assembled a panel of smart dudes -- a two-time Super Bowl champ; a couple of NFL linemen, including one who's getting a math Ph.D. at MIT; and our…
9 years, 1 month ago
273. Did China Eat America’s Jobs?
Episode 273
For years, economists promised that global free trade would be mostly win-win. Now they admit the pace of change has been "traumatic." This has alrea…
9 years, 1 month ago
Is the American Dream Really Dead?
Just a few decades ago, more than 90 percent of 30-year-olds earned more than their parents had earned at the same age. Now it's only about 50 percen…
9 years, 1 month ago
272. Trevor Noah Has a Lot to Say
Episode 272
The Daily Show host grew up as a poor, mixed-race South African kid going to three churches every Sunday. So he has a sui generis view of America — e…
9 years, 2 months ago
271. The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution
Episode 271
Starting in the late 1960s, the Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Danny Kahneman began to redefine how the human mind actually works. Michael Le…
9 years, 2 months ago
How to Become Great at Just About Anything (Rebroadcast)
What if the thing we call "talent" is grotesquely overrated? And what if deliberate practice is the secret to excellence? Those are the claims of the…
9 years, 2 months ago
How to Be More Productive (Rebroadcast)
In this busy time of year, we could all use some tips on how to get more done in less time. First, however, a warning: there's a big difference betwe…
9 years, 2 months ago
270. Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis
Episode 270
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 …
9 years, 3 months ago
269. Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations
Episode 269
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'…
9 years, 3 months ago
268. Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6
Episode 268
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…
9 years, 3 months ago