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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. When Harry Reis was in middle school, he cared what his classmates thought of him. Now, […]
Recipe Notes: – If you don’t like aubergine, you could use mushrooms or tofu instead. – Soba noodles are made from buckwheat which is naturally gluten-free. But always check the package if you are intolerant as there are many brands who mix wheat and buckwheat. – The marinade doesn’t have any acidic ingredient, which I […]
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Swift offers many different built-in ways to iterate over collections (such as arrays, sets, and dictionaries) — the most basic of which being for loops, which let us run a piece of code for each element that was found within a given collection. For example, here we’re looping through an array of names, and we’re […]
BOOKWORM NEWS: Juniper Hill by Devney Perry is now live!! — “Memphis Ward arrives in Quincy, Montana, on the fifth worst day of her life. She needs a shower. She needs a snack. She needs some sanity. Because moving across the country with her newborn baby is by far the craziest thing she’s ever done. […]
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 […]
As we get older adjusting our training, mindset and expectations on the tennis court can be a huge challenge! Today’s special episode of the Essential Tennis Podcast features an open, candid conversation between two lifelong tennis coaches (Ian Westermann and Nate Brolling) about how they’re finding success in competition after many years away from matches […]
A challenge that many developers face as they maintain various code bases over time is how to neatly connect different frameworks and APIs in a way that properly adheres to the conventions of each technology involved. For example, as teams around the world are starting to adopt Swift 5.5’s async/await-powered concurrency system, we’ll likely find […]
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. It was November, 2004. Jeopardy Champion, Ken Jennings kept winning and winning and winning.Alex Trebek: […]