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445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

Freakonomics Radio

Episode: 445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
Website: Freakonomics Radio
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Duration: 00:36:56
Published: 2020-12-24 05:00

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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