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24 alternatives to Freakonomics Radio - Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6

Most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Freakonomics Radio - Bad Medicine, Part 1: The Story of 98.6 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Freakonomics Podcast - Bad Medicine, Part 2: (Drug) Trials and Tribulations▲60
How do dangerous drugs make it to market?
2016 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics - This Is Your Brain on Podcasts▲60
Scientific evidence that podcasts are good for your brain
2016 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics▲97
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · its alternatives →
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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know▲56
A new trivia-like series from the Freakonomics folks
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hardcore History▲158
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast
2014 · its alternatives →
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BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT▲688
I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
2023 · genmon.github.io · its alternatives →
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Data Science Storytime - Ep. #1, The Fandom Menace▲64
A new podcast about data, science, stories, and time.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Planet Money▲153
A podcast covering the global economy
2014 · its alternatives →
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Criminal Podcast▲115
Real stories behind unbelievable crimes
2015 · its alternatives →
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Rewind Radio▲103
The world's first radio time machine.
2014 · its alternatives →
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Umano▲161
Interesting articles read to you by real people
2013 · its alternatives →
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Everything Is Bullshit▲86
A Book by Priceonomics: The greatest scams on Earth revealed
2014 · its alternatives →
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The One & Only Podcast: Avoid Disease With Functional Medicine▲61
Guest - James Maskell, The Evolution of Medicine
2016 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics Radio: What Are You Waiting For?▲56
Why haven't we found a better way to get what we want?
2016 · its alternatives →
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Human Data Project Weekly▲101
The best healthcare articles delivered to your inbox weekly
2015 · its alternatives →
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Think Like a Freak▲81
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
2014 · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics Radio & A tiny behavioral-sciences startup▲61
The White House gets into the nudge business
2016 · its alternatives →
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Radiolab - Darkode▲80
A very entertaining story about cybercrime from both perspe…
2015 · its alternatives →
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Sapiens▲185
A brief history of humankind
2015 · its alternatives →
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Prehype Podcast▲107
Entrepreneurs speaking to people they think are interesting
2015 · its alternatives →
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WTF with Marc Maron - Ep 613 w/ Obama▲152
The first presidential podcast
2015 · its alternatives →
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Flipboard for the Web▲189
Catch up on the stories and people that matter to you.
2015 · its alternatives →
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The New New Thing Podcast: Marketers and Scientists Have More in Common Than You Think▲54
An experimental podcast.
2017 · its alternatives →
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TL;DR▲85
Interesting content, summarized by real people
2014 · its alternatives →

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