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The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam:This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. In high school, Naomi Rothman was a shy teenager. That is until she laced up her cleats […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain, I’m Shankar Vedantam. Human beings are always trying to make sense of the world. When things happen to us […]
Scientists in Australia thought they had developed an innovative new tracking device to help them monitor magpies, but these crafty birds had other ideas. New research published in Australian Field Ornithology describes an experiment that didn’t go as planned. A small group of Australian magpies (Cracticus tibicen), after being fitted with harness-like tracking devices, unilaterally […]
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The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. All parents have moments when their kids test their patience. Liane Young is no exception.Liane Young: […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. We’ve all been there: you park your car in a giant lot, only to come back […]
The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain. I’m Shankar Vedantam. When Harry Reis was in middle school, he cared what his classmates thought of him. Now, […]
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The transcript below may be for an earlier version of this episode. Our transcripts are provided by various partners and may contain errors or deviate slightly from the audio. Shankar Vedantam: This is Hidden Brain, I’m Shankar Vedantam. Early in the morning on August 17th, 1999, an earthquake struck Northwestern Turkey. It was a […]
As we mark the one-year anniversary of America’s right-wing temper tantrum that almost destabilized the nation, many Americans are probably wondering just how we can prevent such a terrible, violent event from ever happening again. Well, according to the Washington Post, those in the data science community believe they may have a solution. Many data researchers […]