Steven D. Levitt
Host at People I (Mostly) Admire
dad, economist, @freakonomics co-author, @center4risc co-founder, podcast host @mostlyadmiring
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1 week ago |
freakonomics.com | Steven D. Levitt
Most doctors focus on prolonging human life, but not today’s guest. Ellen Wiebe is a physician who spends her days ending lives. WIEBE: I have had these wonderful conversations with so many people where I say, “Now that you have the approval to go ahead, when would you like to die? Where would you like to die? Who do you want to invite to your death? Anything special you want at the day?”Welcome to People I (Mostly) Admire, with Steve Levitt.
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2 weeks ago |
freakonomics.com | Steven D. Levitt
Episode Transcript Today’s episode is an encore presentation of a conversation I had with Yul Kwon way back in January 2021, not long after I started the podcast. It was such a good conversation that we turned it into two episodes, the first time we’d ever done that. Today, we’ve condensed those two episodes back into one, keeping just the very best. I hope you enjoy it. Yul is an absolutely amazing human being.
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1 month ago |
freakonomics.com | Steven D. Levitt |Suzanne O’Sullivan |It’s all
Can you have too much of a good thing? Medical care is a good thing. But my guest today, Suzanne O’Sullivan, says that our medical system is over testing, over diagnosing and over treating patients. That’s the case she makes in her newest book, The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker. Suzanne is a neurologist who focuses on the treatment of epilepsy, and she’s written four books about her experiences as a physician.
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1 month ago |
freakonomics.com | Steven D. Levitt |Mario Livio |Jack Szostak |Owen Flanagan
I’m sure you’re familiar with Darwin’s theory of evolution, which explains how simple life forms evolved over billions of years into complex life forms. But what evolution doesn’t tell us about at all is how those simple life forms came into being in the first place. How did we go from non-life to life? And that is the question that keeps today’s guest, Jack Szostak, up at night. SZOSTAK: Life everywhere has cells, right? So there had to be a first cell.
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2 months ago |
freakonomics.com | Steven D. Levitt |Hank Green
Episode Transcript Hey there, it’s Stephen Dubner from Freakonomics Radio. I am busting into this People I (Mostly) Admire episode to tell you that we are doing a live Freakonomics Radio show in Los Angeles on February 13th. And I hope you’ll join us. Guests will include Ari Emanuel, the CEO of the sports and entertainment firm Endeavor; the filmmaker R.J. Cutler, and the Freakonomics Radio house band led by Luis Guerra.
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I had a great time speaking with the @BigBrainsUC Podcast about my work in economics, the importance of #DataScience in making decisions, and some of our ongoing projects at @center4risc!
Having trouble making a different decision? Prof. @StevenDLevitt says don't overthink it—and just flip a coin. The @UChicago scholar talks about his innovative research, the success of the @Freakonomics book and #podcast, and his unique spin on #economics. https://t.co/H61wHjpEjv
16 states have managed to introduce #DataScience basics to K-12 students without issue, yet a controversy erupted in CA with their math framework. I wrote to @FortuneMagazine why I think the 3-year debate over math seemed to miss the forest for the trees: https://t.co/vHlOqVbDK9
RT @BigBrainsUC: What would you want to ask "Freakonomics" co-author @StevenDLevitt? Big Brains is interviewing the renowned UChicago econo…
