Why Do We Seek Comfort in the Familiar?

<p>In this episode of <em>No Stupid Questions</em> — a Freakonomics Radio Network show launched earlier this year — Stephen Dubner and Angela Duckworth debate why we watch, read, and eat familiar things during a crisis, and if it might in fact be better to try new things instead. Also: is a little knowledge truly as dangerous as they say? </p>