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Repeat After Me: With Guests Jennifer LeMesurier & Tali Sharot
Season 13 Episode 1
Vitamin C is a cure for the common cold. Bats are blind. Sugar makes children hyperactive.
All of these statements are false. So why are they so perva…
2 years ago
(BONUS) From What It's Like to Be … a Forensic Accountant
Season 12
Curious what it would be like to walk in someone else's (work) shoes? Join New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath as he explores the world of wo…
2 years, 3 months ago
A Sticky Situation: With Guests Richard Thaler, Wendy Wood & Susan Budowski
Season 12 Episode 6
Filling out an overly complicated form or waiting on hold for hours to speak with a customer service rep is a frustrating experience. And sometimes i…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jumping to Conclusions: With Guests David Silbey & Ned Augenblick
Season 12 Episode 5
A train was speeding along the tracks in 19th-century England when a passenger suddenly started smashing windows and waving a pistol in the air. Peop…
2 years, 5 months ago
No Mean Feat: With Guests Albert Chen & Elizabeth Tipton
Season 12 Episode 4
It’s halftime at a basketball game. A kid nervously steps onto center court. If he can score a basket from center court, he’ll take home the prize mo…
2 years, 6 months ago
A Cup of Knowledge: With Guests A.J. Jacobs & Steven Sloman
Season 12 Episode 3
Why do ocean waves move the way they do? How does a toaster work? How might ink flow through a ballpoint pen without the help of gravity? You may kno…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Golden Misfits: With Guests Gary Lawless & Erika Kirgios
Season 12 Episode 2
What is the difference between buying groceries for the whole week versus grabbing something to eat on the way home each day? Grouping choices togeth…
2 years, 7 months ago
An Accidental Experiment: With Guests Steven Levitt, Solomon Ezra & Stephen Spector
Season 12 Episode 1
Scientifically sound, randomized experiments can be expensive and difficult to run. But there’s an alternative: It turns out that certain real-life s…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Superforecasters: With Guests Leon Panetta, Peter Bergen & Barbara Mellers
Season 11 Episode 6
There are moments in life where it seems as though everything is riding on one important decision. If only we had a crystal ball to see the future, w…
2 years, 10 months ago
Survey Says: With Guests W. Joseph Campbell & Emily Oster
Season 11 Episode 5
If you ran a survey at a science fiction convention to find out which movies were most popular with the general public, chances are good that the res…
2 years, 10 months ago