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Freakonomics Radio

Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior.

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Latest Episodes:

Why Is There So Much Ground Beef in the World? (Special Feature) Nov 07, 2017

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In this live episode of "Tell Me Something I Don't Know," you'll learn about carcass balancing, teen sleeping, and brand naming. Joining Stephen J. Dubner as co-host is Alex Wagner (CBS This Morning Saturday); author A.J. Jacobs (It's All Relative) is the live fact-checker.

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307. Thinking Is Expensive. Who’s Supposed to Pay for It? Nov 02, 2017

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Corporations and rich people donate billions to their favorite think tanks and foundations. Should we be grateful for their generosity — or suspicious of their motives?

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306. How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution Oct 26, 2017

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Academic studies are nice, and so are Nobel Prizes. But to truly prove the value of a new idea, you have to unleash it to the masses. That's what a dream team of social scientists is doing — and we sat in as they drew up their game plan.

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305. The Demonization of Gluten Oct 19, 2017

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Celiac disease is thought to affect roughly one percent of the population. The good news: it can be treated by quitting gluten. The bad news: many celiac patients haven't been diagnosed. The weird news: millions of people without celiac disease have quit gluten – which may be a big mistake.

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304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them? Oct 12, 2017

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Smart government policies, good industrial relations, and high-end products have helped German manufacturing beat back the threats of globalization.

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“Tell Me Something I Don't Know” on the topic of Behavior Change (Special Feature) Oct 01, 2017

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Stephen J. Dubner hosts an episode full of the world's most renowned behavior change experts, including Colin Camerer, Ayelet Fishbach, David Laibson, Max Bazerman, Katy Milkman, and Kevin Volpp. Angela Duckworth (psychologist and author of Grit) is our special guest co-host, with Mike Maughan (head of global insights at Qualtrics) as real-time fact-checker.

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303. Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love Sep 28, 2017

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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 brilliant economists of his generation (and perhaps the most irascible). And he thinks the Trump Administration is wrong on just about everything.

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302. Why Learn Esperanto? Sep 26, 2017

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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 world gather once a year to celebrate their bond?

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301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series) Sep 21, 2017

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We explore votes for English, Indonesian, and … Esperanto! The search for a common language goes back millennia, but so much still gets lost in translation. Will technology finally solve that?

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300. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series) Sep 14, 2017

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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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