Freakonomics co-author Stephen J. Dubner uncovers the hidden side of everything. Why is it safer to fly in an airplane than drive a car? How do we decide whom to marry? Why is the media so full of bad news? Also: things you never knew you wanted to know about wolves, bananas, pollution, search engines, and the quirks of human behavior.

Stay ahead with a selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Published every Monday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The programme that explains the present by exploring the past.

We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every other Friday.

The daily drama of money and work from the BBC.

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Every weekday, host Kai Ryssdal helps you make sense of the day’s business and economic news — no econ degree or finance background required. “Marketplace” takes you beyond the numbers, bringing you context. Our team of reporters all over the world speak with CEOs, policymakers and regular people just trying to get by.

The Scared Confident podcast inspires high-achievers to passionately pursue a Life of And. Host Tiffany Sauder shares lessons learned from the first 20 years of her career mixed with vulnerable, real-time reporting from her life, career, marriage, and parenting adventures today. Tiffany dives deep into the realities of a two-career family and passionately shares the journey to build the toolbox required to ‘have it all.’ This is a real and vulnerable space to break through the walls that fea ...

What's the one secret you've never told anybody? Welcome to The Secret Room, a podcast about the true stories no one ever tells. Hosted by Ben Hamm.