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552. Freakonomics Radio Presents: The Economics of Everyday Things

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The Cost of a Stan Skeleton

Nathan Merevold was the first CTO at Microsoft. He's also very into dinosaurs and has written a number of peer-reviewed papers, including one on dinosaur vomit. Larson says he has sold around 100 casts to museums all over the world. Dwayne the Rock Johnson has a plastic Stan skull in his home office. It set him back around $12,000.

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