People I (Mostly) Admire
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Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt tracks down other high achievers for surprising, revealing conversations about their lives and obsessions. Join Levitt as he goes through the most interesting midlife crisis you’ve ever heard — and learn how a renegade sheriff is transforming Chicago's jail, how a biologist is finding the secrets of evolution in the Arctic tundra, and how a trivia champion memorized 160,000 flashcards.To get every show in the Freakonomics Radio Network without ads and a monthl...
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Episodes (245)
132. Suleika Jaouad’s Survival Mechanisms
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131. Getting Old, Adventurously
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What It’s Like to Be Steve Levitt’s Daughters (Update)
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130. Is Our Concept of Freedom All Wrong?
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129. How to Fix Medical Research
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EXTRA: Remembering Daniel Kahneman
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128. Are Our Tools Becoming Part of Us?
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127. Rajiv Shah Never Wastes a Crisis
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126. How to Have Great Conversations
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125. Is Gynecology the Best Innovation Ever?
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124. Daron Acemoglu on Economics, Politics, and Power
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123. Walt Hickey Wants to Track Your Eyeballs
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122. Arnold Schwarzenegger Has Some Advice for You
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121. Exploring Physics, from Eggshells to Oceans
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120. Werner Herzog Thinks His Films Are a Distraction
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119. Higher Education Is Broken. Can It Be Fixed?
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118. “My God, This Is a Transformative Power”
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117. Nate Silver Says We're Bad at Making Predictions
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116. Abraham Verghese Thinks Medicine Can Do Better
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EXTRA: Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin on "Greedy Work" and the Wage Gap
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115. The Future of Therapy Is Psychedelic
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114. Is Perfectionism Ruining Your Life?
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113. Do We Have Evidence of Alien Life?
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112. Reading Dostoevsky Behind Bars
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111. Can a Moonshot Approach to Mental Health Work?
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110. Drawing from Life (and Death)
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Extra: An Update on the Khan World School
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109. David Simon Is On Strike. Here’s Why.
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The Economics of Everyday Things: T. rex Skeletons
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108. Ninety-Eight Years of Economic Wisdom
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107. Bringing Data to Life
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106. Will A.I. Make Us Smarter?
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105. Can Data Keep People Out of Prison?
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104. The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart
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103. Rick Rubin on How to Make Something Great
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102. Adding Ten Healthy Years to Your Life
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101. Celebrating 100 People I (Mostly) Admire
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100. Chicago’s Renegade Sheriff Wants to Fix Law Enforcement
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99. Greg Norman Takes On the P.G.A. Tour
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98. Searching for Our Aquatic Ancestors
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97. How Smart Is a Forest?
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96. Steven Strogatz Thinks You Don’t Know What Math Is
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95. The One Thing Stephen Dubner Hasn’t Quit
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94. The Price of Doing Business with John List
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93. Annie Duke Thinks You Should Quit
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92. John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride
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91. Jane Goodall Changed the Way We See Animals. She’s Not Done.
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90. Peter Singer Isn’t a Saint, But He’s Better Than Steve Levitt
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Extra: A Rockstar Chemist Wins the Nobel Prize
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89. A Cross Between Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones
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