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Exploring the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior | Team: NPR host Shankar Vedantam & Supervising Producer
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Hidden Brain 15 t
We've all been there: replaying an event in our heads over and over again. Thinking of the ways we could have done things differently. This week, we bring you a favorite episode about why our minds get caught in these mental loops: Rewinding & Rewriting
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Hidden Brain 27. jan.
As humans, we often rely on the people most like us to form our beliefs as we pass information from one person to another. | The Vegetable Lamb 🔊
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Hidden Brain 26. jan.
People don't like to go out on a limb when someone outside their inner circle proposes a new idea. Mary Wortley Montagu learned this the hard way when she tried to convince people of a method to prevent the spread of smallpox. | The Vegetable Lamb 🔊
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Hidden Brain 25. jan.
We often rely on science to help us sift the fake from the real. But says science rarely offers absolute truths. | The Vegetable Lamb 🔊
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Hidden Brain 24. jan.
Hard and fast truths can be tough to come by -- including in the world of science. Mathematician and philosopher suggests that we should rethink the way we view "certainty." | The Vegetable Lamb 🔊
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Hidden Brain 24. jan.
Ignaz Semmelweis was a physician with a radical proposal: he thought his colleagues should wash their hands before treating patients. They didn't embrace his suggestion. | The Vegetable Lamb 🔊
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Hidden Brain 23. jan.
We like to think that science evolves in a way that is ... rational. But this isn't always the case. This week, we look at how information and misinformation spread in science. | The Vegetable Lamb 🔊
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Rhaina Cohen 22. jan.
Thanks to the smarts and audio artistry of (there's no talent this woman lacks!) this week's episode is an entertaining romp through eye-opening ideas
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Hidden Brain 23. jan.
Mathematician and philosopher uses computer simulations to understand the dizzying social networks that spread knowledge—true and untrue. | 🔊 The Vegetable Lamb
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Camila Vargas Restrepo 22. jan.
Before working at I knew nothing about Vegetable Lambs. 🐏Today, I am excited to share what I have been thinking about day and night for the past few months! Here it is:
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Hidden Brain 21. jan.
🔊New episode alert!🔊 How do we know what’s true? This week, we talk to philosopher and mathematician Cailin O’Connor about how smart people spread bad ideas. | The Vegetable Lamb
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Hidden Brain 21. jan.
"I think what was so brilliant about King, but also before him...the NAACP was trying to think about how do we make change? And what they thought was, 'We're gonna embrace democracy. We are going to hug democracy tightly and we're going to reveal the hypocrisy.'"
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Hidden Brain 17. jan.
We’re more likely to laugh with other people—even when those other people aren’t real. In the 1940s, sound engineer Charles Douglass invented the “Audience Response Duplicator,” AKA “The Laff Box,” and changed the way we watch TV. | The Best Medicine 🔊
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Hidden Brain 17. jan.
Thanks for taking us along!!
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Hidden Brain 17. jan.
So are we. That conference call audio in the story...yeah, that was the HB team. One producer who shall not be named said "I feel personally attacked." 😂
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Hidden Brain 16. jan.
Neuroscientist says that laughter often isn’t a response to humor – it’s a response to people. | The Best Medicine 🔊
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Laura Kwerel 15. jan.
I made the laughter episode! And I packed in as much joy as I could. 🥰
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Hidden Brain 15. jan.
As a neuroscientist who studies laughter, listens closely to chuckles and giggles. Laughter, she says, “is a very good index of how we feel about the people that we're with." | The Best Medicine 🔊
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Hidden Brain 15. jan.
Thanks for sharing, and sorry to hear about the difficulties. Will pass this on! -TB
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Hidden Brain 14. jan.
😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣 NEW EPISODE ALERT! This week, why we laugh -- a look behind the LOLs, the ROFLs, the HAHAHAs. Check your podcast feed tonight for The Best Medicine. 🔊 😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣😀😆😂🤣
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