280. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” on the topic of Collections.

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280. “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” on the topic of Collections.

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Mar 28, 2017

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Hear live journalism wrapped in a game show package and hosted by Stephen J. Dubner. In this episode, Tim Ferriss, Eugene Mirman and Anne Pasternak are panelists. The self-help guru, the comedian and the Brooklyn Museum director talk about brainwaves, sugar, stars and — thanks to fact-checker AJ Jacobs — barf bags.

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Mar 28, 2017

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