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36. Bad News — It’s Your Surgeon’s Birthday

Freakonomics, M.D.

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The Limits of Multi Tasking in the Real World

Multi tasking is one of katherine's research specialties. Catherine and her co authors discovered that if a green number showed up on the screen while people were looking for green and read letters, it slowed them down. So how might this play out in the real world?

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