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You 2.0: Dream Jobs
Why do you work? Are you mostly in it for the money, or do you have another purpose? Popular wisdom says your answer depends on the nature of your jo…
8 years, 10 months ago
You 2.0: Deep Work
When your phone buzzes or a notification pops up your screen, do you stop what you're doing to look and respond? That's what many of us are doing. Ev…
8 years, 10 months ago
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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
9 years 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…
9 years 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 …
9 years ago