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The Dangers of Safety (Rebroadcast)
215. Why Do We Really Follow the News?
214. How to Create Suspense
213. Aziz Ansari Needs Another Toothbrush
212. The Economics of Sleep, Part 2
211. The Economics of Sleep, Part 1
A Better Way to Eat (Rebroadcast)
210. Is It Okay for Restaurants to Racially Profile Their Employees?
209. Make Me a Match
208. Making Sex Offenders Pay -- and Pay and Pay and Pay
207. Should We Really Behave Like Economists Say We Do?
Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (Rebroadcast)
Failure Is Your Friend (Rebroadcast)
206. Ten Years of Freakonomics
205. Could the Next Brooklyn Be ... Las Vegas?!
Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)
204. Nate Silver Says: “Everyone Is Kind of Weird”
203. Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend
202. How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?
201. How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?
The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)
What You Don’t Know About Online Dating (Rebroadcast)
200. When Willpower Isn’t Enough
199. This Idea Must Die
198. The Maddest Men of All
197. Hacking the World Bank
196. Is There a Better Way to Fight Terrorism?
195. How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?
194. How Safe Is Your Job?
193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip
192. That’s a Great Question!
191. Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?
What’s the “Best” Exercise? (Rebroadcast)
What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? (Rebroadcast)
190. Time to Take Back the Toilet
The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat (Rebroadcast)
189. How to Fix a Broken High Schooler, in Four Easy Steps
188. Is America’s Education Problem Really Just a Teacher Problem?
187. The Man Who Would Be Everything
186. Why Do People Keep Having Children?
185. Should the U.S. Merge With Mexico?
184. What Can Vampires Teach Us About Economics?
183. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know”
182. How Can Tiny Norway Afford to Buy So Many Teslas?
How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten (Rebroadcast)
181. Fixing the World, Bang-for-the-Buck Edition
180. Fitness Apartheid
179. Outsiders by Design
178. How to Save $1 Billion Without Even Trying
177. Regulate This!
Who Runs the Internet? (Rebroadcast)
Parking Is Hell (Rebroadcast)
What Do Medieval Nuns and Bo Jackson Have in Common? (Rebroadcast)
Should Tipping be Banned? (Rebroadcast)
How Much Does Your Name Matter? (Rebroadcast)
176. Does Religion Make You Happy?
175. Why You Should Bribe Your Kids
174. What Do King Solomon and David Lee Roth Have in Common?
173. A Better Way to Eat
172. How to Screen Job Applicants, Act Your Age, and Get Your Brain Off Autopilot
171. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Appetizer
170. Why America Doesn’t Love Soccer (Yet)
169. Failure Is Your Friend
The Upside of Quitting (Rebroadcast )
168. Think Like a Child
167. The Three Hardest Words in the English Language
166. How to Think Like a Freak -- and Other FREAK-quently Asked Questions
165. The Perfect Crime
164. Which Came First, the Chicken or the Avocado?
163. What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol?
162. “If Mayors Ruled the World”
161. How to Make People Quit Smoking
160. Why Everybody Who Doesn’t Hate Bitcoin Loves It
Women Are Not Men (Rebroadcast)
159. “It’s Fun to Smoke Marijuana”
158. Is Learning a Foreign Language Really Worth It?
157. Why Are Japanese Homes Disposable?
156. Why Marry? (Part 2)
155. Why Marry? (Part 1)
154. What You Don’t Know About Online Dating
153. Reasons to Not Be Ugly
152. Everybody Gossips (and That’s a Good Thing)
Fear Thy Nature (Rebroadcast)
151. Are We Ready to Legalize Drugs? And Other FREAK-Quently Asked Questions
150. What’s the “Best” Exercise?
Save Me From Myself (Rebroadcast)
149. Pontiff-icating on the Free-Market System
148. Are Gay Men Really Rich?
147. The Most Dangerous Machine
146. Fighting Poverty With Actual Evidence
145. What Do Skating Rinks, Ultimate Frisbee, and the World Have in Common?
144. Who Runs the Internet?
Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 2 (Rebroadcast)
Freakonomics Goes to College, Part 1 (Rebroadcast)
143. Why Bad Environmentalism Is Such an Easy Sell
142. The Troubled Cremation of Stevie the Cat
141. How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kitten
140. How to Think About Money, Choose Your Hometown, and Buy an Electric Toothbrush
139. Would a Big Bucket of Cash Really Change Your Life?
The Economist’s Guide to Parenting (Rebroadcast)