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Summer Melt
According to research from Harvard, as many as 40% of kids who intend to go to college at the time of high school graduation don't actually show up i…
8 years, 8 months ago
Could You Kill A Robot?
Will we one day create machines that are essentially just like us? People have been wrestling with that question since the advent of robotics. But ma…
8 years, 8 months ago
Losing Face
It happens to all of us: someone recognizes you on the street, calls you by name, and says hello... and you have no idea who that person is. Research…
8 years, 8 months ago
Guessing Games
Pundits and prognosticators make predictions all the time: about everything from elections, to sports, to global affairs. This week on Hidden Brain, …
8 years, 8 months ago
"Is he Muslim?"
In a five year period from 2011 to 2016, just twelve percent of terrorist attacks in the United States were perpetrated by Muslims. More than fifty p…
8 years, 9 months ago
Rap on Trial
Olutosin Oduwole was an aspiring rapper and college student when he was arrested in 2007. He was given an unusual charge: "attempting to make a terro…
8 years, 9 months ago
In The Air We Breathe
After a police-involved shooting, there's often a familiar blame game: Maybe the cop was racist. Maybe the person who was shot really was threatening…
8 years, 9 months ago
Broken Windows
In the early 1980s, a couple of researchers wrote an article in The Atlantic that would have far-reaching consequences. The article introduced a new …
8 years, 9 months ago
Me, Myself, and IKEA
It's normal to feel drawn to people you share something with — whether that's a name, or a birthday, or a common background. But did you know that wo…
8 years, 9 months ago
Ep. 71: The Fox and the Hedgehog
The Greek poet Archilochus is known for the phrase, "The fox knows many things; the hedgehog one big thing." This week, we'll use this metaphor as a …
8 years, 10 months ago