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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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Travel

A bungalow in South Seaside Park, New Jersey. (Courtesy of Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Money

Jersey Shore Airbnb hosts earned nearly $70M during 2019, company says

Jersey Shore homeowners that list their units on the popular rental marketplace Airbnb collectively raked in tens of millions of dollars in 2019, the company said. 

6 years ago

Where should you sit on a plane to reduce the risk of exposure to germs spread by infectious passengers? (skaman306/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

How not to get sick on a plane: A guide to avoiding pathogens

Here are recommendations from researchers on how to stave off infectious diseases such as the common cold and the flu during a flight.

6 years ago

A sign advertises the Wilmington Airport.
Community

It’s back: Passenger air service returns to Delaware

Commercial passenger flights to and from Delaware are back. Frontier Airlines will resume flights from the Wilmington New Castle Airport in May.

7 years ago

NJ Transit (AP file photo)
Down the Shore
Community

Work begins to harden Jersey Shore rail yard against storm surge

A post-Superstorm Sandy project to protect a Jersey Shore rail yard from future storms is underway.

7 years ago

(Public domain image)
Down the Shore
Community

Portion of popular back road to the Shore closed until June

A popular secondary road that connects the Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean is closed until June for what state officials say are "priority roadway repairs."

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Down the Shore
Community

Ad on Waze app sends Atlantic City-bound motorists into Pinelands

An ad in the Waze navigation app is misdirecting motorists headed to Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa into the wilderness of New Jersey's Pinelands, police said.

7 years ago

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Julio Corro, right, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017, at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston. The Trump administration intends to require that American citizens boarding international flights submit to face scans, something Congress has not explicitly approved and privacy advocates consider an ill-advised step toward a surveillance state. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Community
Billy Penn

Face scanners are coming to PHL Airport next week

A pilot program at three international gates will test the new tech before it’s rolled out everywhere.

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Radio Times
Science

Travel, climate change and guilt

We talk about the impact of flying on climate change, the "flight shaming movement," and the pros and cons of carbon offsets with two climate scientists and a travel writer.

Air Date: January 14, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:59
In this Dec. 3, 2019, photo, Mohammed Hafar checks the arrivals road while waiting for his daughter Jana Hafar's flight at JFK Airport in New York. Mohammed Hafar was part of a federal lawsuit filed in August of this year over the travel ban waiver process. “Every time I speak to her, she ask, ‘When are they going to give me the visa?'
Courts & Law

To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court

Some Americans separated from loved ones by the Trump administration's travel ban have gone as far as suing the government in federal court.

7 years ago

File photo: Rush-hour traffic heads west, right, and east, left, along the Schuylkill Expressway. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Community

Record-breaking travel volume expected this holiday season in the region

Nationwide, AAA projects more than 115 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more between Saturday, Dec. 21 and New Year’s Day.

7 years ago

The National Weather Service has issued ice storm and winter storm warnings for some areas. (Carolyn Kaster/File AP Photo)
Community

Travel restrictions announced on some Pennsylvania roads

State transportation officials in Pennsylvania have announced travel restrictions with wintry weather bearing down on the commonwealth.

7 years ago

Food prep workers die-in at the Philadelphia airport on Wednesday night to demonstrate the life and death stakes of lacking affordable healthcare. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Community

Airline food prep workers stage PHL ‘die-in’ to rally for better health care

Employees of LSG Sky Chef, a subcontractor for American Airlines and others, staged a ‘die-in’ to spotlight their demand for affordable health care coverage.

7 years ago

Beverley Bass was the captain of a flight from Paris to Dallas when the attacks of September 11 closed U.S. airspace. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Pilot recalls kindness in Canada as musical inspired by true 9/11 story opens in Philly

Pilot Beverly Bass says “Come From Away” is actually “a 9/12 story” about what happened after about 7,000 passengers were stranded in a tiny town.

7 years ago

Listen 3:40
(Mark Henninger/Imagic Digital)
Lifestyle
Billy Penn

You can walk underground from the Gallery to the Comcast Center. Here’s how to do it.

The route isn’t obvious, so we made a handy map.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump says the U.S. is issuing an emergency order grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft in the wake of a crash of an Ethiopian Airliner. (Ted S. Warren/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

U.S., Canada ground Boeing 737 Max 8s after Ethiopia crash

President Donald Trump says the U.S. is issuing an emergency order grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft in the wake of a crash of an Ethiopian Airliner.

7 years ago

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