5. What Do Tom Sawyer and the Founder of Duolingo Have in Common?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2020-06-15

29 分钟
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Also: is there such a thing as too much science? With special guest Luis von Ahn.

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  • I'm thankful that most academics are such terrible writers.

  • Great.

  • It gives you a job.

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Stephen Dubner, and you're listening to.

  • No stupid questions today on the show.

  • How do you get people to work for free without their even knowing?

  • It played better than Tom Sawyer.

  • Really?

  • He just painted a frickin fence.

  • Yeah.

  • Also, there are millions of academic articles published each year.

  • But how much is this research actually benefiting us?

  • Not even other scientists are reading these articles.

  • And not even scientists mothers.

  • Very likely not.

  • Angela.

  • Steven, nice to see you.

  • It is great to see you.

  • Special occasion today?