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445. Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?
36 minutes Posted Dec 24, 2020 at 4:00 am.
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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?