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Activist Alice Wong reflects on 'The Year of the Tiger' and her hopes for 2023
Saturday, February 04, 2023
In the Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong shares pieces of her story and experience as a disabled Asian American through a collection of essays, interviews, photos and illustrations.
The Story Of Money: How Human Behavior Shapes Economies — And Vice Versa
Tuesday, January 21, 2020
What's the point of money? The answer might seem obvious: we need it to get paid for our work, and to buy the things we need. But there's also a deeper way to look at the role of money in our lives.
Tell Me A Story: What Narratives Reveal About The Mind
Thursday, January 09, 2020
We live in a world of stories. They're in movies, books, and plays. They're even in the things that we buy.
Finding Meaning At Work: How We Shape And Think About Our Jobs
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Finding a new job may be the solution to your woes at work. But there may also be other ways to get more out of your daily grind. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore ways to find meaning at work.
Whose Utopia? How Science Used The Bodies Of People Deemed 'Less Than'
Thursday, July 18, 2019
There is a long legacy of leaders exploiting the bodies of vulnerable people in the name of science. This week, the history of eugenics and medical experimentation on enslaved people in the U.S.
Trying To Do Good
Thursday, March 21, 2019
We know our actions affect those around us. But how do we know whether our impact is positive? This week on Hidden Brain, what it means to do good in the world.
Counting Other People's Blessings
Friday, March 15, 2019
Envy is one of the most unpleasant of all human emotions. This week, we explore an emotion that can inspire us to become better people — or to commit unspeakable acts.
Yum and Yuck: The Psychology Of What We Eat...And What We Spit Out
Thursday, December 13, 2018
This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, we dig into the culture and psychology that determines the foods that make us salivate and the scents that make us squirm.
More Divided Than Ever: Excavating the Roots Of Our Political Landscape
Thursday, October 18, 2018
American politics can be nasty. Does that mean that it's broken?
Watch Your Mouth
Thursday, July 12, 2018
This week on the Hidden Brain radio show, we explore how the constantly evolving nature of languages can give us different ways of understanding ourselves as well as the world we live in.
Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: Why and How We Eat
Monday, June 11, 2018
Food fills many of our needs. Hunger is just one. Paul Rozin explains the profound role that food plays in our lives.
When Everything Clicks: The Power Of Judgment-Free Learning
Monday, June 04, 2018
There can be a lot of psychological noise involved in learning. And mental chit chat can make learning hard. One solution, silence it with a click.
Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How A Family Became A Test Case For Forced Sterilizations
Monday, April 23, 2018
The eugenicists were utopians, convinced that they were doing hard but necessary things. And that included making decisions about who gets to have children.