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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.
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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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Think Big by Going Small

How can we get into outer space faster? Nanocraft! The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot initiative intends to develop, within a genera ...

Air Date: May 16, 2017

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 Dr. Jennifer Ramsey, Wildlife Veterinarian with Fish, Wildlife and Parks of Montana collects samples from a fox’s intestine during a necropsy at the lab in Bozeman. The fox may have died from eating a Japanese yew. (Jordon Neidermeier/for WHYY)
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Homeowners, spate of animal deaths may come down to yew

Drop-dead gorgeous plant kills big game in the Rocky Mountain West. The Japanese yew is beautiful and deadly. So deadly, land ...

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 Elvis Rosado detoxed alone and was successful. Researchers say stories like his are rare. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
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Without medical support, DIY detox often fails

Kicking an addictive painkiller habit often requires prescriptions and counseling. By the time Elvis Rosado was 25, he was addicte ...

9 years ago

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 Genspace Lab Manager Will Shindel passes out pipette tips to the students while explaining their lab protocol for the day. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
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How a gene editing tool went from labs to a middle school classroom

It seems just like yesterday that the gene editing tool called CRISPR Cas9 burst into the science community with seemingly endless option ...

9 years ago

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Sunoco’s pipeline construction releases drilling mud into Delco Creek

9 years ago

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Race for the Cure draws thousands, raises millions

Thousands gathered on Eakins Oval Mother’s Day for the 27th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Families and friends gathered to w ...

9 years ago

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Radio Times
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Fraternity hazing culture

Guests: Doug Fierberg, Gentry McCreary 18 members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State University face c ...

Air Date: May 12, 2017

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‘Driving’ to Delaware operating room gets kids revved up for dental surgery

Miniature vehicles are helping a Wilmington, Delaware, clinic ease fear before surgery and cut down on medication. Four-year-old D ...

9 years ago

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Speak Easy
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A precarious 101 days for a premature baby

When I went to the doctor on a cold November evening to find out whether I was having a boy or a girl, the last thing I was expecting to ...

9 years ago

StateImpact
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Middletown residents sue Sunoco to stop pipeline, alleging violation of township ordinance

9 years ago

 David Dorschu and Deni Carise with Recovery Centers of America standing in a room at the Lighthouse at Mays Landing, a treatment center the company flipped for $1.25 million last year. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
The Pulse
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From ’80s to now: Waves of investment in drug treatment can help, hurt patients

Just as the clothes we wear and the restaurants we visit follow trends, the illicit drugs we ingest cycle in and out of fashion. I ...

9 years ago

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 Alex Spencer sits at his table making phone calls to be a test subject for new studies. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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This research subject calls himself a ‘professional guinea pig’

Alex Spencer has earned thousands of dollars as a research subject. “That vein right here on the left side of my left arm ha ...

9 years ago

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Summer Sky Season Beckons

With the return of the summer constellations rising around midnight, the Milky Way rises up from ringing the horizon and will arc slowly ...

Air Date: May 8, 2017

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StateImpact
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EPA urges Pennsylvania to move faster on water safety issues

9 years ago

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Speak Easy
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A newborn boy with a genetic heart condition; a father’s joy and dread

On Aug. 10, 2016, less than one month before my wife Kate was due to give birth to our second child, she and I received news that would change our lives forever.

9 years ago

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