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American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are so familiar they’ve become part of our cultural wallpaper. A raven croaking “nevermore?” An enemy bricked up in a cellar? … Listen here >American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

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Low Fidelity

Journalist Bella Bathurst describes how she lost her hearing while conducting interviews with the last generation of Scottish lighthouse keepers and then how it felt, … Listen here >Low Fidelity

California Dreamin’

A new law in California mandates that middle schools can’t start before 8 am, and high schools 8:30. This is based on years of studies … Listen here >California Dreamin’

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American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Categories: Audio – Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are so familiar they’ve become part of our cultural wallpaper. A raven croaking “nevermore?” An enemy bricked up in a cellar? … Listen here >American Icons: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe

California Dreamin’
Categories: Audio – Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

California Dreamin’

A new law in California mandates that middle schools can’t start before 8 am, and high schools 8:30. This is based on years of studies … Listen here >California Dreamin’

How to Make Meetings Less Terrible
Categories: Audio – Posted on November 24, 2019November 24, 2019

How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

In the U.S. alone, we hold 55 million meetings a day. Most of them are woefully unproductive, and tyrannize our offices. For Freakonomics Radio, I … Listen here >How to Make Meetings Less Terrible

The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting
Categories: Audio – Posted on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019

The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting

When my daughter was born, my wife and I agreed that we wouldn’t drive ourselves crazy reading every book of parenting advice on the shelf. … Listen here >The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting

How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)
Categories: Audio – Posted on May 7, 2019May 7, 2019

How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek gave a rare interview to Freakonomics Radio for an episode I produced. We tell the story of how Ek … Listen here >How Spotify Saved the Music Industry (But Not Necessarily Musicians)

Low Fidelity
Categories: Audio – Posted on December 29, 2018

Low Fidelity

Journalist Bella Bathurst describes how she lost her hearing while conducting interviews with the last generation of Scottish lighthouse keepers and then how it felt, … Listen here >Low Fidelity

How to Be Creative
Categories: Audio – Posted on December 29, 2018March 25, 2019

How to Be Creative

Creativity has become a buzzword, universally desirable but uniformly misunderstood. What is it, really? Is there a definition large enough to capture all the various … Listen here >How to Be Creative

The Strange Business of Ice
Categories: Audio – Posted on September 20, 2018September 26, 2018

The Strange Business of Ice

For the kids’ podcast Brains On (American Public Media), I made a piece about the history of harvesting ice in 19th century New England – … Listen here >The Strange Business of Ice

Walden Pondered
Categories: Audio – Posted on September 20, 2018September 20, 2018

Walden Pondered

“Walden” doesn’t really have a plot. It’s one part memoir, one part self-help and 10 parts rant about everything wrong with American society. So why … Listen here >Walden Pondered

How to Catch World Cup Fever
Categories: Audio – Posted on June 21, 2018July 13, 2018

How to Catch World Cup Fever

For soccer fans, it’s easy. For the rest of us? Not so much, especially since the U.S. team didn’t qualify. I produced and scripted this … Listen here >How to Catch World Cup Fever

The Invisible Paw
Categories: Audio – Posted on April 23, 2018July 13, 2018

The Invisible Paw

We’ve always assumed that humans are the only animal to engage in economic activity. We even have a name for ourselves, Homo economicus, that enshrines … Listen here >The Invisible Paw

Building a Community Oral History Archive
Categories: Audio, Teaching – Posted on April 23, 2018

Building a Community Oral History Archive

In fall 2017, I taught a class on documentary storytelling at Maine College of Art. Over the course of the semester, the students (BFA candidates … Listen here >Building a Community Oral History Archive

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