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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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Race & Ethnicity

 President Donald Trump speaks about the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s second Charlottesville statement, translated

At the White House yesterday, Trump said: “… Racism is evil. And those who cause violen ...

8 years ago

 White nationalist demonstrators walk through town after their rally was declared illegal near Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Politics & Policy

On ‘Radio Times’: President Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville

In response to the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend, Radio Times talked about white supremacist groups and President Trump’ ...

8 years ago

Dancers perform on stage during the Festival of India at Penn's Landing Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (Emily Cohen for NewsWorks)
View Finders
Lifestyle

Celebration of independence showcases Indian culture in Philly

Happy, nervous energy filled the backstage area as dancers from more than 35 organizations readied themselves to perform at the Festival ...

8 years ago

Politics & Policy

Philly high school students learn the art of protest with Mighty Writers

Nia Peterson, 15, drew a depiction of the American flag, but with rainbow colors, representing the LGBTQ community, instead of ...

8 years ago

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 Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally Saturday, July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Politics & Policy

Delaware Sen. Coons: Trump ‘failed to step up’ to Charlottesville racists

President Trump’s comments following the white supremacist violence in Virginia this weekend may make it harder for him to work wit ...

8 years ago

 A makeshift memorial of flowers and a photo of victim, Heather Heyer, sits in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. Heyer died when a car rammed into a group of people who were protesting the presence of white supremacists who had gathered in the city for a rally. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

Heather Heyer’s death in Charlottesville must not be in vain

Hate came to Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend, and it refused to be ignored. Hate screamed racial e ...

8 years ago

 Lois Fernandez, who helped to found the celebration of African culture in 1975, talks with Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf at the 42nd Annual Odunde Festival. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

Lois Fernandez, founder of Odunde Festival, dies at age 81

The brains and vision behind one of Philadelphia’s internationally recognized culture institutions is dead. Lois Fernandez, foun ...

8 years ago

Listen 1:59
Donald Trump
Radio Times
Health

The Violence in Charlottesville / Debating ‘The Goldwater Rule’

Guests: Peter Simi, John Gartner, Christine Aschwanden We start this hour discussing the violence in Charlottesvi ...

Air Date: August 14, 2017

Listen 0:00
 Dieba Sow, Jose Garcia and Minh Nguyen are immigrant students with the Philadelphia Education Fund's College Access Program (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
Education

Philly’s Spanish-speaking students lag in English language achievement

This story is about an achievement gap. No, not the achievement gap — a term used to describe how white and wealthy stu ...

8 years ago

Listen 6:22
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Speak Easy
Courts & Law

Expungements can erase the stigma that haunts people of color

A criminal record can haunt a person long after a case has ended, even if that person is found not guilty or all the charges against them ...

8 years ago

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Speak Easy
Courts & Law

If people get interracial marriage wrong, it can be worse with divorce

My first real clue that things actually weren't as rosy as I thought came when people anxiously wanted to know if I would keep my married name.

8 years ago

 the author and her husband sip white chocolate martinis at Bok Bar in South Philadelphia, overlooking the Center City skyline. (<a href='https://www.instagram.com/phillyblooms/'>@PhillyBlooms</a>)
Speak Easy
Courts & Law

This white chocolate martini does not mean what you think it means

It wasn't until eight years later that my husband and I realized the pun: a white bride and black groom. We felt a little embarrassed by the unintended joke.

8 years ago

American writer James Baldwin poses in front of his typewriter in his house, March 15, 1983, Saint Paul de Vence, France. (Photo Pressenia/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Philly celebration of author James Baldwin’s enduring legacy includes remarks from Abu-Jamal

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the death of James Baldwin, a prolific writer whose work chronicles the struggle and history of A ...

8 years ago

 Daguerreotype of Jonah Thompson, c. 1847 (Library Company of Philadelphia)
Speak Easy
Education

The unfulfilled dream of the School District of Philadelphia

When the School District of Philadelphia has a major problem, poor old Jonah Thompson is surely fidgeting in his grave. And the district ...

8 years ago

 Bill Cosby is shown exiting the Montgomery County Courthouse after a mistrial in his sexual assault case in Norristown, Pa., Saturday, June 17, 2017. Last week, reports surfaced about Cosby's plans to tour the country lecturing young people about the dangers of sex-crime allegations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Speak Easy
Courts & Law

No sympathy for Cosby as he plans his lecture tour

When the news broke last week that Bill Cosby plans to conduct sexual assault seminars this summer social media pages exploded with voice ...

8 years ago

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