The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It? (Rebroadcast)

August 9, 2018 @ 6:00pm

by Freakonomics

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Season 7, Episode 49

Clever ways to not waste our waste, and there’s a nasty secret about hot-button topics like global warming: knowledge is not always power.

To find out more, check out the podcasts from which this hour was drawn: “Weird Recycling” and “The Truth Is Out There…Isn’t It?”

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