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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42. America’s Math Curriculum Doesn’t Add Up
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41. Dr. Bapu Jena on Why Freakonomics Is the Best Medicine
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40. Harold Pollack on Why Managing Your Money Is as Easy as Taking Out the Garba...
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39. Aicha Evans Wants You to Take Your Eyes Off the Road
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38. Sendhil Mullainathan Explains How to Generate an Idea a Minute (Part 2)
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37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time
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36. How Rahm Emanuel Would Run the World
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35. David Epstein Knows Something About Almost Everything
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34. Maya Shankar Is Changing People’s Behavior — and Her Own
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33. Travis Tygart Is Coming for Cheaters — Just Ask Lance Armstrong
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32. Angela Duckworth Explains How to Manage Your Goal Hierarchy
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31. Peter Leeson on Why Trial-by-Fire Wasn’t Barbaric and Why Pirates Were Democ...
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30. Dambisa Moyo Says Foreign Aid Can’t Solve Problems, but Maybe Corporations C...
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29. Bruce Friedrich Thinks There’s a Better Way to Eat Meat
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28. Professor Carl Hart Argues All Drugs Should Be Legal — Can He Convince Steve...
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27. Daniel Kahneman on Why Our Judgment is Flawed — and What to Do About It
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26. Memory Champion Nelson Dellis Helps Steve Train His Brain
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25. Sam Harris: “Spirituality Is a Loaded Term.”
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Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Bad S...
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24. Amaryllis Fox: “What Does This New Version of Mutually Assured Destruction L...
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23. Greg Norman & Mark Broadie: Why Golf Beats an Orgasm and Why Data Beats Ever...
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22. Sal Khan: “If It Works for 15 Cousins, It Could Work for a Billion People.”
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21. Pete Docter: “What If Monsters Really Do Exist?”
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20. John Donohue: “I'm Frequently Called a Treasonous Enemy of the Constitution....
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19. Marina Nitze: “If You Googled ‘Business Efficiency Consultant,’ I Was the On...
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18. Robert Sapolsky: “I Don’t Think We Have Any Free Will Whatsoever.”
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17. Emily Oster: “I Am a Woman Who Is Prominently Discussing Vaginas.”
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16. Joshua Jay: “Humans Are So, So Easy to Fool.”
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15. Tim Harford: “If You Can Make Sure You're Not An Idiot, You've Done Well.”
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Yul Kwon: “Hey, Do You Have Any Bright Ideas?” (Part 2)
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13. Yul Kwon: “Don't Try to Change Yourself All at Once.”
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12. Sue Bird: “You Have to Pay the Superstars.”
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11. Paul Romer: “I Figured Out How to Get Myself Fired From the World Bank.”
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10. Suzanne Gluck: “I'm a Person Who Can Convince Other People to Do Things”
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9. Moncef Slaoui: "It’s Unfortunate That It Takes a Crisis for This to Happen"
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8. Peter Attia: “I Definitely Lost a Lot of IQ Points That Day”
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7. Caverly Morgan: "I Am Not This Voice. I Am Not This Narrative."
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6. Nathan Myhrvold: “I Am Interested in Lots of Things, and That's Actually a Ba...
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5. Susan Wojcicki: “Hey, Let’s Go Buy YouTube!”
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Steve Levitt: “I’m Not as Childlike as I’d Like to Be”
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4. Ken Jennings: “Don’t Neglect the Thing That Makes You Weird”
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3. Kerwin Charles: “One Does Not Know Where an Insight Will Come From”
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2. Mayim Bialik: “I Started Crying When I Realized How Beautiful the Universe Is...
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1. Steven Pinker: "I Manage My Controversy Portfolio Carefully”
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Introducing “People I (Mostly) Admire”
People I (Mostly) Admire