Innovation Hub: Fact and Fiction

Specials | Dec 5, 2014

On this episode of Innovation Hub: separating fact from fiction.

Host Kara Miller talks with Ben Casselman about how entrepreneurship is actually on the decline, despite all the media hype. Tovah Klein and Dr. Gary Small weigh in on the impacts of technology screens like smartphones and tablets on babies. Then, a closer look at a new study about aging adults and their memory levels. And the show wraps up with an interview with writer Michael Spector about why people choose to believe in things that have been proven false by science... and the dangers of that denial.

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