Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher
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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Episodes
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Dec 27, 2011 • 5min
55. The Perils of Drunk Walking
We know it's terribly dangerous to drive drunk. But heading home on foot isn't the solution.
Dec 21, 2011 • 30min
54. How Is a Bad Radio Station Like Our Public-School System? (Encore)
The thrill of customization, via Pandora and a radical new teaching method
Dec 13, 2011 • 5min
53. How American Food Got So Bad
Tyler Cowen points fingers. There's plenty of blame to go around.
Dec 2, 2011 • 24min
52. Weird Recycling
Clever ways to not waste our waste.
Nov 29, 2011 • 5min
51. What Makes a Donor Donate?
The science of charity, with economist John List.
Nov 22, 2011 • 30min
50. The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It?
There’s a nasty secret about hot-button topics like global warming: knowledge is not always power.
Nov 16, 2011 • 5min
49. Unnatural Turkeys
Our appetite for breast meat renders our holiday birds unable to reproduce.
Nov 8, 2011 • 30min
48. Boo…Who?
Is booing an act of verbal vandalism—or the last true expression of democracy?
Nov 2, 2011 • 5min
47. Wildfires, Cops, and Keggers
On Election Day, most people focus on the obvious winners and losers -- that is, the candidates. But we went looking for some of the strange side effects that elections produce.
Oct 25, 2011 • 27min
46. Misadventures in Baby-Making
We are constantly wowed by new technologies and policies meant to make childbirth better. But beware the unintended consequences.
