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Freakonomics Radio Live: “We Thought of a Way to Manipulate Your Perception of Time.”
Freakonomics Radio Live: “Where Does Fear Live in the Brain?”
Freakonomics Radio Live: “The World’s a Mess. But Oysters, They Hold it Down.”
361. Freakonomics Radio Live: “Jesus Could Have Been a Pigeon.”
360. Is the Protestant Work Ethic Real?
359. Should America Be Run by … Trader Joe’s?
There’s a War on Sugar. Is It Justified? (Rebroadcast)
358. Yes, the Open Office Is Terrible — But It Doesn’t Have to Be
357. Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?
356. America’s Hidden Duopoly
Extra: Elvis Costello Full Interview
355. Where Does Creativity Come From (and Why Do Schools Kill It Off)?
Extra: Jeremy Lin Full Interview
354. How to Be Creative
353. How to Optimize Your Apology
352. Can This Man Stop a Trade War?
Extra: Shawn Johnson Full Interview
351. Here’s Why You’re Not an Elite Athlete
Extra: Full Interviews With Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Staley, Mike McGlinchey, and Kyle Juszczyk
350. How to Stop Being a Loser
349. How Sports Became Us
348. Is the Government More Entrepreneurial Than You Think?
347. Why You Shouldn’t Open a Restaurant
346. Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet
345. How to Be Happy
344. Who Decides How Much a Life Is Worth?
A Conversation With PepsiCo C.E.O. Indra Nooyi (Ep. 316 Update)
343. An Astronaut, a Catalan, and Two Linguists Walk Into a Bar…
342. Has Lance Armstrong Finally Come Clean?
341. Why We Choke Under Pressure (and How Not To)
340. People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard.
339. The Future of Freakonomics Radio
In Praise of Incrementalism (Rebroadcast)
In Praise of Maintenance (Rebroadcast)
338. How to Catch World Cup Fever
337. How to Build a Smart City
How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Rebroadcast)
336. The Most Vilified Industry in America Is Also the Most Charitable
335. Does Doing Good Give You License to Be Bad?
334. 5 Psychology Terms You’re Probably Misusing
Evolution, Accelerated (Rebroadcast)
333. The Most Ambitious Thing Humans Have Ever Attempted
332. Why the Trump Tax Cuts Are Terrible/Awesome (Part 2)
331. Why the Trump Tax Cuts are Awesome/Terrible (Part 1)
330. Extra: Ray Dalio Full Interview
329. The Invisible Paw
328. Extra: Mark Zuckerberg Full Interview
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask) (Rebroadcast)
327. Extra: Carol Bartz Full Interview
The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money (Rebroadcast)
326. Extra: Jack Welch Full Interview
325. How to Train Your Dragon Child
324. Extra: Satya Nadella Full Interview
323. Here’s Why All Your Projects Are Always Late — and What to Do About It
322. Extra: David Rubenstein Full Interview
Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late? (Rebroadcast)
321. Extra: Richard Branson Full Interview
320. Letting Go
319. After the Glass Ceiling, a Glass Cliff
318. It’s Your Problem Now
317. What Can Uber Teach Us About the Gender Pay Gap?
An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl (Rebroadcast)
316. “I Wasn’t Stupid Enough to Say This Could Be Done Overnight”
315. How to Become a C.E.O.
What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?
313. How to Be a Modern Democrat — and Win
Why Is My Life So Hard? (Rebroadcast)
Trust Me (Rebroadcast)
Make Me a Match (Rebroadcast)
312. Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F.
311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?
310. Are We Running Out of Ideas?
Is America Ready for a “No-Lose Lottery”? (Update)
309. Nurses to the Rescue!
308. How Can I Do the Most Social Good With $100? And Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
Why Is There So Much Ground Beef in the World? (Special Feature)
307. Thinking Is Expensive. Who’s Supposed to Pay for It?
306. How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution
305. The Demonization of Gluten
304. What Are the Secrets of the German Economy — and Should We Steal Them?
“Tell Me Something I Don't Know” on the topic of Behavior Change (Special Feature)
303. Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love
302. Why Learn Esperanto?
301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
300. Why Don’t We All Speak the Same Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
299. "How Much Brain Damage Do I Have?"
Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)
Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)
Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)
What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)
298. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)
297. The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money
296. These Shoes Are Killing Me!
295. When Helping Hurts
294. The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage
The Harvard President Will See You Now (Rebroadcast)
293. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 2)
292. Why Hate the Koch Brothers? (Part 1)
"Tell Me Something I Don't Know" on the topic of Rivalry
291. Evolution, Accelerated