Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio
Dec 23, 2020
445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
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In this episode of No Stupid Questions — a Freakonomics Radio Network show launched earlier this year — Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth debate why we watch, read, and eat familiar things during a crisis, and if it might in fact be better to try new things instead. Also: is a little knowledge truly as dangerous as they say?

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