Hey podcast listeners, as you know we like to take questions from just about anybody,

readers, listeners, strangers in the street.

Sometimes we'll go out on a limb for a question.

Literally, out on a limb.

Like the other day, I'll just look at my window and this pigeon.

I kind of look familiar but honestly they all look like to me.

Anyway, this one guy, he just started yapping away at me.

What's that?

Huh, you know, I do remember that.

Yeah, that is a great question.

Whatever did happen to the carpal tunnel syndrome epidemic.

From WNYC, this is Freakinomics Radio, the podcast that explores the hidden side of everything.

Here's your host, Stephen Dupner.

So Leva, I remember when we first met.

I was at your office at the University of Chicago and your computer had one of those keyboards

that sort of folded up in the middle.

You type kind of like you're playing a concertina and those little push buttons accordion.

So what was that all about?

Oh man, carpal tunnel.

So when I was a graduate student, I decided to type in the data from every congressional

election that had ever occurred in the United States.

And I got the big books and I had this horrible typing set.

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