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When Everything Clicks
There can be a lot of psychological noise involved in teaching. But what if we replaced all that mental chit chat....with a click? This week, we expl…
7 years, 11 months ago
Kinder-Gardening
Many parents think they can shape their child into a particular kind of adult. Psychologist Alison Gopnik says the science suggests otherwise. This w…
7 years, 11 months ago
Rewinding & Rewriting
All of us are time travelers. We go back in history to turning points in our lives, and imagine how things could have turned out differently. Psychol…
7 years, 11 months ago
Radio Replay: This Is Your Brain On Ads
How many ads have you encountered today? On this week's radio replay, we discuss the insidiousness of advertising in American media. We begin with ne…
7 years, 11 months ago
Baby Talk
Babies are speaking to us all the time, but most of us have no clue what they're saying. To researchers, though, the babbling of babies is knowable, …
8 years ago
Rap on Trial
Olutosin Oduwole was an aspiring rapper and college student when he was arrested in 2007. He was charged with "attempting to make a terrorist threat.…
8 years ago
The Fox and the Hedgehog
The Greek poet Archilochus wrote that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." This week, we'll use the metaphor of the fox…
8 years ago
Emma, Carrie, Vivian
In 1924, a 17-year-old girl was admitted to the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded. The superintendent of the colony classified he…
8 years ago
Radio Replay: The Weight of Our Words
Political correctness. Free speech. Terrorism. On this week's Radio Replay, we look at the language we use around race and religion, and what that la…
8 years ago
Romeo and Juliet in Kigali
How do you change someone's behavior? Most of us would point to education or persuasion. But what if the answer lies elsewhere? Today we explore a re…
8 years ago