Sinopsis
Discover the hidden side of everything with Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of the Freakonomics books. Each week, Freakonomics Radio tells you things you always thought you knew (but didnt) and things you never thought you wanted to know (but do) from the economics of sleep to how to become great at just about anything. Dubner speaks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, intellectuals and entrepreneurs, and various other underachievers. Special features include series like The Secret Life of a C.E.O. as well as a live game show, Tell Me Something I Dont Know.
Episodios
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Think Like a Child (Rebroadcast)
30/04/2015 Duración: 29minWhen it comes to generating ideas and asking questions it can be really fruitful to have the mentality of an eight year old.
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204. Nate Silver Says: “Everyone Is Kind of Weird”
23/04/2015 Duración: 39minAmerica's favorite statistical guru answers our FREAK-quently Asked Questions, and more.
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203. Diamonds Are a Marriage Counselor’s Best Friend
16/04/2015 Duración: 40minIt may seem like winning a valuable diamond is an unalloyed victory. It's not. It's not even clear that a diamond is so valuable.
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202. How Many Doctors Does It Take to Start a Healthcare Revolution?
09/04/2015 Duración: 53minThe practice of medicine has been subsumed by the business of medicine. This is great news for healthcare shareholders -- and bad news for pretty much everyone else.
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201. How Do We Know What Really Works in Healthcare?
02/04/2015 Duración: 41minA lot of the conventional wisdom in medicine is nothing more than hunch or wishful thinking. A new breed of data detectives is hoping to change that.
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The Perfect Crime (Rebroadcast)
26/03/2015 Duración: 29minIf you are driving and kill a pedestrian, there's a good chance you'll barely be punished. Why?
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What You Don’t Know About Online Dating (Rebroadcast)
19/03/2015 Duración: 40minThick markets, thin markets, and the triumph of attributes over compatibility.
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200. When Willpower Isn’t Enough
12/03/2015 Duración: 33minSure, we all want to make good personal decisions, but it doesn't always work out. That's where "temptation bundling" comes in.
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199. This Idea Must Die
05/03/2015 Duración: 54minEvery year, Edge.org asks its salon of big thinkers to answer one big question. This year's question borders on heresy: what scientific idea is ready for retirement?
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198. The Maddest Men of All
26/02/2015 Duración: 32minAdvertisers have always been adept at manipulating our emotions. Now they're using behavioral economics to get even better.
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197. Hacking the World Bank
19/02/2015 Duración: 36minJim Yong Kim has an unorthodox background for a World Bank president — and his reign thus far is just as unorthodox.
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196. Is There a Better Way to Fight Terrorism?
12/02/2015 Duración: 42minThe White House is hosting an anti-terror summit next week. Summits being what they are, we try to offer some useful advice.
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195. How Efficient Is Energy Efficiency?
05/02/2015 Duración: 32minIt's a centerpiece of U.S. climate policy and a sacred cow among environmentalists. Does it work?
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194. How Safe Is Your Job?
29/01/2015 Duración: 33minEconomists preach the gospel of "creative destruction," whereby new industries -- and jobs -- replace the old ones. But has creative destruction become too destructive?
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193. Someone Else’s Acid Trip
22/01/2015 Duración: 29minAs Kevin Kelly tells it, the hippie revolution and the computer revolution are nearly one and the same.
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192. That’s a Great Question!
15/01/2015 Duración: 25minVerbal tic or strategic rejoinder? Whatever the case: it’s rare to come across an interview these days where at least one question isn’t a “great” one.
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191. Why Doesn’t Everyone Get the Flu Vaccine?
08/01/2015 Duración: 36minInfluenza kills, but you’d never know it by how few of us get the vaccine.
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What’s the “Best” Exercise? (Rebroadcast)
01/01/2015 Duración: 15minMost people blame lack of time for being out of shape. So maybe the solution is to exercise more efficiently.
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What’s More Dangerous: Marijuana or Alcohol? (Rebroadcast)
25/12/2014 Duración: 25minImagine that both substances were undiscovered until today. How would we think about their relative risks?
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190. Time to Take Back the Toilet
18/12/2014 Duración: 34minPublic bathrooms are noisy, poorly designed, and often nonexistent. What to do?