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)
88. Ken Burns on Heroism, Horror, and History
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87. How Much Are the Right Friends Worth?
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86. A Million-Year View on Morality
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85. What It Takes to Know Everything
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84. Yuval Noah Harari Thinks Life Is Meaningless and Amazing
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83. “There's So Many Problems — Which Ones Can I Make a Difference On?”
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82. Is This the Future of High School?
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81. Why Bother Searching for Aliens?
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80. Get Your Share of the Pie
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79. Solar Geoengineering Would Be Radical. It Might Also Be Necessary.
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78. Giving It Away
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77. Can Games Prepare Us for Catastrophes? (Part 2)
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76. Is Gaming Good for You?
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75. Self-Help for Data Nerds
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74. Getting Our Hands Dirty
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73. Turning Work into Play
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72. “Leaving Black People in the Lurch”
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71. Bombs Away
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70. You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Experiment
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69. Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence?
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68. “No One Can Resist a Jolly, Happy Pig.”
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67. We Can Play God Now
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66. The Professor Who Said “No” to Tenure
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65. A Rockstar Chemist and Her Cancer-Attacking “Lawn Mower”
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64. How Larry Miller Went from Prison Valedictorian to Nike Executive
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63. The Only Covid-19 Book Worth Reading
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62. How Does Historian Brad Gregory Make a Boring Topic So Mind-Blowing?
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61. Was Austan Goolsbee’s First Visit to the Oval Office Almost His Last?
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60. Cassandra Quave Thinks the Way Antibiotics Are Developed Might Kill Us
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Why Aren’t All Drugs Legal? (Replay Ep. 28)
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Are We Under Threat from a New Kind of Terror? (Replay Ep. 24)
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59. Who Gives the Worst Advice?
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58. Why Is Richard Thaler Such a ****ing Optimist?
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57. What Makes John Doerr Think He Can Save the Planet?
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56. Claudia Goldin: What’s “Greedy Work” and Why Is It a Problem?
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55. Jared Diamond on the Downfall of Civilizations — and His Optimism for Ours
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54. Andrew Yang Is Not Giving Up on Politics — or the U.S. — Yet
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53. The Simple Economics of Saving the Amazon Rainforest
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52. Max Tegmark on Why Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Won’t be Our Slave (Pa...
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51. Max Tegmark on Why Treating Humanity Like a Child Will Save Us All
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50. Edward Miguel on Collecting Economic Data by Canoe and Correlating Conflict...
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49. Mathematician Sarah Hart on Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears
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48. Marc Davis Can’t Stop Watching Basketball — But He Doesn’t Care Who Wins
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Ken Jennings on How a Midlife Crisis Led Him to Jeopardy! (People I (Mostly) Adm...
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Mayim Bialik on the Surprising Risks of Academia and Stability of Show Biz (Peop...
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47. Robert Axelrod on Why Being Nice, Forgiving, and Provokable are the Best Str...
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46. Amanda & Lily Levitt Share What It’s Like to be Steve’s Daughters
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45. Leidy Klotz on Why the Best Solutions Involve Less — Not More
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44. Edward Glaeser Explains Why Some Cities Thrive While Others Fade Away
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43. Arne Duncan Says All Kids Deserve a Chance — and Criminals Deserve a Second...
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