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A look at the ancient practice that turned friends into family

Tuesday, April 09, 2024

In the latest story in the NPR's series The Science of Siblings, we hear about a practice that dates back to ancient times that allows people to turn a friend into a sibling.

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Tower Of Babble: Nonnative Speakers Navigate The World Of 'Good' And 'Bad' English

Sunday, April 25, 2021

The demand for "proper" English can be used to shut people out of spaces and opportunities. The folks at NPR's "Rough Translation" podcast have a story to tell.

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'People Will Forget About Us': The Capital Gazette Shooting Survivors, Years Later

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

After the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper, the surviving staff resolve to rebuild their paper.

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The Mind Of The Village: Understanding Our Implicit Biases

Saturday, June 20, 2020

This week on Hidden Brain, research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. We'll begin with police shootings of unarmed Black men. We also look at how biases affect judges.

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Stop The Presses! Newspapers Affect Us, Often In Ways We Don't Realize

Thursday, April 30, 2020

On this week's radio show, we trace the history of fake news. Plus, in a time when accurate information is so important, we ask who ultimately bears the cost when no one wants to pay for local news.

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Looking Back: Reflecting On The Past To Understand The Present

Saturday, February 29, 2020

Why are we so often pulled into memories of the past? This week, we bring you a 2018 episode about our ruminations on what we could have done differently, and what we wish we could do again.

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How To See The Future (No Crystal Ball Needed)

Thursday, January 23, 2020

When disaster strikes, we want to know, who screwed up? This week we explore the psychology of warnings: Why some warnings get heard, and why some of us are better at seeing what lies ahead.

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Tell Me A Story: What Narratives Reveal About The Mind

Thursday, January 09, 2020

We live in a world of stories. They're in movies, books, and plays. They're even in the things that we buy.

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I, Robot: Our Changing Relationship With Technology

Thursday, October 03, 2019

Do you ever catch yourself yelling at your Alexa? Or typing questions into Google that you would never ask aloud? This week, we explore our changing relationship with technology.

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Death And The Great Beyond: How We Grapple With The Idea Of Dying

Thursday, September 26, 2019

There's an event we were all invited to the day we were born. Attendance is mandatory. But we'd rather not think about it. On this week's radio show, the lengths we go to to avoid thoughts of death.

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Stop The Presses! Newspapers Affect Us, Often In Ways We Don't Realize

Friday, September 06, 2019

Should reporters think of their readers and listeners as consumers, or as citizens? This week on Hidden Brain, we explore this tension at the heart of journalism.

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Decisions, Decisions: Some We Struggle To Make, Others We Can't Forget

Thursday, July 25, 2019

This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, decision-making. We learn why we often stumble when trying to make ourselves happy, and why certain decisions leave us wondering "what if?"

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How To See The Future (No Crystal Ball Needed)

Thursday, May 16, 2019

When disaster strikes, we want to know, who screwed up? This week we explore the psychology of warnings: Why some warnings get heard, and why some of us are better at seeing what lies ahead.

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Stop The Presses! Newspapers Affect Us, Often In Ways We Don't Realize

Thursday, April 04, 2019

This week we consider what we misunderstand about newspapers – from their long history of hype, to the hidden price we pay when they close.

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Trying To Do Good

Thursday, March 21, 2019

We know our actions affect those around us. But how do we know whether our impact is positive? This week on Hidden Brain, what it means to do good in the world.

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'Hard To Love' Offers Tribute To Life's Many, Varied Relationships

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

Author Briallen Hopper takes us into her unusually expansive love life, complete with knotty familial relationships, deep friendships, and emotional investment in the fictional and material worlds.

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Bringing Up Baby

Thursday, November 15, 2018

This week we focus on the behavior of the youngest members of the human race. We try to translate the mysterious language of babies. And we ask, when should we step back and just let our children be?

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Latest Trend: U.S. Companies Are Engaged In Stock Buybacks

Friday, October 05, 2018

Companies flush with cash are choosing to use some of that money to buy back their own stock shares, instead of investing in new products or raises for employees. So, is this a good trend?

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Baby Got Buybacks

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Companies are buying back stock from shareholders more than ever. Not everyone thinks that's a good thing.

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Why Now?

Friday, July 27, 2018

Decades ago, a group of women accused a prominent playwright of sexual misconduct. For the most part, the complaints went nowhere. In 2017, more women came forward. This time, people listened.

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