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3 days ago · Hey there, it’s Stephen Dubner, and this is a bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio. On this week’s regular episode, we traveled to Chicago to celebrate the legacy of Danny Kahneman, the Nobel prize-winning psychologist who recently died at age 90. Kahneman and his research partner Amos Tversky produced a body of work that reshaped not just ...
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2 days ago · ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗. 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?
5 days ago · Voters are showing they're worried about income inequality, immigration and the effects of participating in a global economy. Today, we take a look at what the swing to the right means for Europe...
3 days ago · Research psychologist Angela Duckworth (author of "Grit") and tech and sports executive Mike Maughan really like to ask people questions, and they believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they have a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want. New episodes each week.
11 hours ago · Charting J.D. Vance's journey from 'never Trump' to Trump's running mate. By Marc Rivers, Courtney Dorning , Ailsa Chang. Published July 16, 2024 at 3:17 PM CDT. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with David Frum, a senior editor for The Atlantic, to dig a little deeper into J.D. Vance’s political path. Frum knew the politician and wrote a piece about ...
2 days ago · You wouldn’t think you could win a Nobel Prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. But that’s what Richard Thaler has done. In an interview ...
1 day ago · Theodore John Kaczynski ( / kəˈzɪnski / ⓘ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( / ˈjuːnəbɒmər / ⓘ YOO-nə-bom-ər ), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. [1] [2] He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive lifestyle .
