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Title: How an English Teachers Quest to Meet John Lennon Changed Beatles History

Author: Lidia Jean Kott

Narrator: Marco Werman

Format: Original Recording

Length: 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-06-17

Publisher: PRI's The World

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

An English teacher in Spain might be responsible for convincing the Beatles to include lyrics in the liner notes on their albums.

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Title: Bad Medicine, Part 3: Death by Diagnosis (Rebroadcast)

Author: Stephen J. Dubner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-31-17

Publisher: Freakonomics Radio, WNYC Studios and Stephen J. Dubner

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

By some estimates, medical error is the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. How can that be? And what's to be done? Our third and final episode in this series offers some encouraging answers.

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Title: Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations (Rebroadcast)

Author: Stephen J. Dubner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-17

Publisher: Freakonomics Radio, WNYC Studios and Stephen J. Dubner

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

How do so many ineffective and even dangerous drugs make it to market? One reason is that clinical trials are often run on "dream patients" who aren't representative of a larger population. On the other hand, sometimes the only thing worse than being excluded from a drug trial is being included.

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Title: Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 (Rebroadcast)

Author: Stephen J. Dubner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-17

Publisher: Freakonomics Radio, WNYC Studios and Stephen J. Dubner

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. In the first episode of a three-part series, we look at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and ask whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution.

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Title: What Are You Waiting For? (Rebroadcast)

Author: Stephen J. Dubner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-17

Publisher: Freakonomics Radio, WNYC Studios and Stephen J. Dubner

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

Standing in line represents a particularly sloppy and frustrating way for supply and demand to meet. Why haven't we found a better way to get what we want? Is it possible that we secretly enjoy waiting in line? And might it even be (gulp) good for us?

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Title: Dark Web, Intro

Author: Audible Channels

Format: Original Recording

Length: Not Yet Known

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

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Title: Dark Web, Outro

Author: Audible Channels

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Format: Original Recording

Length: Not Yet Known

Language: English

Release date: 08-08-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

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Title: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Money (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Author: Stephen J. Dubner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-17

Publisher: Freakonomics Radio, WNYC Studios and Stephen J. Dubner

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

The bad news: roughly 70 percent of Americans are financially illiterate. The good news: all the important stuff can fit on one index card. Here's how to become your own financial superhero.

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Title: The Stupidest Thing You Can Do With Your Money

Author: Stephen J. Dubner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-27-17

Publisher: Freakonomics Radio, WNYC Studios and Stephen J. Dubner

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

It's hard enough to save for a house, tuition, or retirement. So why are we willing to pay big fees for subpar investment returns? Enter the low-cost index fund. The revolution will not be monetized.

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Title: These Shoes Are Killing Me!

Author: Stephen J. Dubner

Format: Original Recording

Length: 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-20-17

Publisher: Freakonomics Radio, WNYC Studios and Stephen J. Dubner

Genres: Radio & TV, News, Business, & Culture

Publisher's Summary:

The human foot is an evolutionary masterpiece, far more functional than we give it credit for. So why do we encase it in "a coffin" (as one foot scholar calls it) that stymies so much of its ability and may create more problems than it solves?

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