Alright so Leva it's time to field some questions from listeners and readers some freak

wintly asked questions. How do you feel about that? You're ready?

I'm ready to go.

This is your favorite part of life, isn't it?

Well I do like, I like being able to just jab or for 30 seconds about something I don't

know that much about and then move on to the next thing.

That's why we're here. Alright here's one from a reader named Sebastian Sevoix. Sebastian

writes to say, is it safe to sneeze with your eyes open?

That's the best question we can get from a reader.

From WNYC and APM American Public Media, this is Freakonomics Radio, the podcast that

explores the hidden side of everything. Here's your host, Stephen Dupner.

Alright so let's start with a reader named Alex Daley.

And Alex, here she is, I'm not sure which, wants to know, how to drive like an economist

quote as I was slowed down to a crawl by what turned out to be rubber necking on a highway

last week. I was leaving a very large cushion to keep traffic flowing but invariably someone

would tailgate me or cut in front. Is there anything we can do about this?

Leva, you have any thoughts?

Well I will say that there are few instances in our society where individuals are able

to impose such large externalities on other individuals through their behavior as it is on

the roads. So through aggressive driving and drunk driving and simply from being on the

roads period, it turns out that other people driving impose huge costs on me as a driver.

That if no one else was on the roads, I could speed along at whatever speed I want, I'd

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