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The No-Tipping Point (Rebroadcast)
The restaurant business model is warped: kitchen wages are too low to hire cooks, while diners are put in charge of paying the waitstaff. So what hap…
9 years, 3 months ago
267. How to Make a Bad Decision
Episode 267
Some of our most important decisions are shaped by something as random as the order in which we make them. The gambler's fallacy, as it's known, affe…
9 years, 3 months ago
Introducing Stephen J. Dubner's new podcast, "Tell Me Something I Don't Know"
"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" is a live game show hosted by Stephen J. Dubner of "Freakonomics Radio." He has always had a mission: to tell you th…
9 years, 4 months ago
266. Trust Me
Episode 266
Societies where people trust one another are healthier and wealthier. In the U.S. (and the U.K. and elsewhere), social trust has been falling for dec…
9 years, 4 months ago
How Much Does the President Really Matter? (Rebroadcast )
The U.S. president is often called the "leader of free world." But if you ask an economist or a Constitutional scholar how much the occupant of the O…
9 years, 4 months ago
265. The White House Gets Into the Nudge Business
Episode 265
A tiny behavioral-sciences startup is trying to improve the way federal agencies do their work. Considering the size (and habits) of most federal age…
9 years, 4 months ago
264. In Praise of Incrementalism
Episode 264
What do Renaissance painting, civil-rights movements, and Olympic cycling have in common? In each case, huge breakthroughs came from taking tiny step…
9 years, 4 months ago
263. In Praise of Maintenance
Episode 263
Has our culture's obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that things also need to be taken care of?
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9 years, 4 months ago
262. This Is Your Brain on Podcasts
Episode 262
Neuroscientists still have a great deal to learn about the human brain. One recent MRI study sheds some light, finding that a certain kind of storyte…
9 years, 5 months ago
How To Win A Nobel Prize (Rebroadcast)
The process is famously secretive (and conducted in Swedish!) but we pry the lid off at least a little bit.
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9 years, 5 months ago