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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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Environment

Temperatures in South Jersey at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 15. (Image: New Jersey Weather & Climate Network)
Down the Shore
Community

Why is it typically cooler along the coast during unseasonably warm days?

It’s courtesy of the sea breeze effect.

7 years ago

An osprey prepares to land on a natural nest in the Barnegat Bay. (Image courtesy of the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey)
Down the Shore
Community

Spring’s almost here: Ospreys begin returning to the Jersey Shore

In recent days, ospreys, also known as fish hawks, were spotted in Ocean County and as far north as the Meadowlands.

7 years ago

Nuisance tidal flooding in Seaside Park, N.J. (Dominick Solazzo)
Down the Shore
Urban Planning

N.J. offers $250k grant program to enhance coastal resilience planning

The Resilient NJ program seek to identify and implement innovative regional solutions to address coastal and river-related flooding.

7 years ago

Students prepare for the Youth Climate Strike
(Sabirah Mahmud)
Science

Students in Pa., N.J. skipping class to urge action on climate change

‘What’s the point of preparing for a future if you won’t have one?’ said Philly’s lead organizer, Sabirah Mahmud, 16.

7 years ago

The U.S. used to ship about 7 million tons of plastic trash to China a year, where much of it was recycled into raw materials. Then came the Chinese crackdown of 2018. (Olivia Sun/NPR)
NPR
Science

Where will your plastic trash go now that China doesn’t want it?

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.

7 years ago

According to a scientific report from the United Nations released on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, climate change, a global major extinction of animals and plants, a human population soaring toward 10 billion, degraded land, polluted air, and plastics, pesticides and hormone-changing chemicals in the water are making the planet an increasing unhealthy place for people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Science

UN: Environment is deadly, worsening mess, but not hopeless

The Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says.

7 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Nuclear watchdog group, citing potential safety issue at Three Mile Island, wants investigation

Three Mile Island Alert is asking federal regulators to analyze what the group calls a “potentially dangerous and risky condition” at Exelon's Three Mile Island plant.

7 years ago

US Steel's Clairton Coke Works.
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Allegheny County Health Dept. revises order against U.S. Steel after it updates repair timeline

The Allegheny County Health Department revised an order against U.S. Steel that required it to significantly curb emissions from three of its Pittsburgh-area facilities.

7 years ago

Tree-clearing in Delaware County to prepare for the construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline project. The builder, Sunoco Logistics, rejected an attempt by a township in neighboring Chester County to block the installation of a valve along the line. (Emily Cohen/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. AG, Delco DA launch criminal investigation into Sunoco, Energy Transfer

Energy Transfer says the probe into the construction of the Mariner East pipelines "has no legitimate basis."

7 years ago

Red Whittaker stands beside an early prototype of RadPiper, a pipe-crawling robot that will help decommission uranium enrichment facilities in Ohio and Kentucky. Whittaker has worked in robotics for four decades at Carnegie Mellon University, and he developed several robots in the 1980s that helped clean up after the Three Mile Island incident. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

After TMI accident in ’79, this Carnegie Mellon team pitched a novel idea for cleanup: Use robots. It was just the beginning.

The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans. Along came a young group of researchers and robots.

7 years ago

An abandoned well in McKean County. (Scott Detrow/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State reaches $7M agreement over 1,400 abandoned oil and gas wells

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned wells in the state.

7 years ago

Rocks and the bay are seen along Bay Point
Science
NJ Spotlight

Barriers, flood walls could help protect back bays, Army Corps says

The interim report foresees a ‘massive’ construction project costing ‘several billion dollars.’

7 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Rep. Mehaffie talks up his nuclear bailout bill; opponents line up to trash it

Pennsylvania Rep. Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) on Monday introduced a bill aimed at keeping two of the state’s five nuclear plants from retiring early.

7 years ago

Solar panels fill a field in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France. (Panoramic Images/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

It’s 2050 and this is how we stopped climate change

Let's imagined that we've ended global warming. Humans are no longer releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Here's what life is like in a zero-carbon world.

7 years ago

Attorney General Gurbir Grewal filed a six-count lawsuit against ExxonMobil, alleging the company is liable for harmful contamination found on and around its 12-acre-plus Lail property in Paulsboro, N.J. on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. (Tim Larsen/Office of the Attorney General)
Courts & Law
NJ Spotlight

N.J. AG takes aim at ExxonMobil over polluted Gloucester County site

The state is once again going after ExxonMobil to clean up and pay to restore once pristine natural areas, in this case a 12-acre site in Gloucester County.

7 years ago

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