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When Is a Superstar Just Another Employee?
Episode 557
In 2023, the N.F.L. players’ union conducted a workplace survey that revealed clogged showers, rats in the locker room — and some insights for those …
1 year, 1 month ago
620. Why Don’t Running Backs Get Paid Anymore?
Episode 620
They used to be the N.F.L.’s biggest stars, with paychecks to match. Now their salaries are near the bottom, and their careers are shorter than ever.…
1 year, 1 month ago
619. How to Poison the A.I. Machine
Episode 619
When the computer scientist Ben Zhao learned that artists were having their work stolen by A.I. models, he invented a tool to thwart the machines. He…
1 year, 1 month ago
Is San Francisco a Failed State? (And Other Questions You Shouldn’t Ask the Mayor)
Stephen Dubner, live on stage, mixes it up with outbound mayor London Breed, and asks economists whether A.I. can be “human-centered” and if Tang is …
1 year, 1 month ago
618. Are Realtors Having an Existential Crisis?
Episode 618
Their trade organization just lost a huge lawsuit. Their infamous commission model is under attack. And there are way too many of them. If they go th…
1 year, 1 month ago
617. Are You Really Allergic to Penicillin?
Episode 617
Like tens of millions of people, Stephen Dubner thought he had a penicillin allergy. Like the vast majority, he didn’t. This misdiagnosis costs billi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Highway Signs and Prison Labor
Incarcerated people grow crops, fight wildfires, and manufacture everything from prescription glasses to highway signs — often for pennies an hour. Z…
1 year, 2 months ago
Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update)
Episode 573
Probably not — the incentives are too strong. But a few reformers are trying. We check in on their progress, in an update to an episode originally pu…
1 year, 2 months ago
Why Is There So Much Fraud in Academia? (Update)
Episode 572
Some of the biggest names in behavioral science stand accused of faking their results. Last year, an astonishing 10,000 research papers were retracte…
1 year, 2 months ago
Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Think
David Eagleman upends myths and describes the vast possibilities of a brainscape that even neuroscientists are only beginning to understand. Steve Le…
1 year, 2 months ago