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#124. Hypochondria: A Personal Story and Historical Exploration
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Sep 01, 2024 |
#123. Space Archaeology: Preserving Artifacts on the Moon
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Aug 25, 2024 |
#122. The Life, Times, and Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, a Founding Thinker of the Enlightenment
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Aug 25, 2024 |
#121. Doing Philosophy with Children
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Aug 18, 2024 |
#120. A Muslim Scholar, Who Converted to Islam, Promotes Interfaith Dialogue
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Aug 13, 2024 |
#119. A History of American Inequality.
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Aug 13, 2024 |
#118. Unjust Inequities in Bankruptcy Law
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Aug 12, 2024 |
#117. A Cause Fraught with Peril: Exposing Abusive Medical Research
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Aug 06, 2024 |
#116. What is the Universe Made of and What is its Destiny?
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Jul 28, 2024 |
#115. Women and War
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Jul 26, 2024 |
#114. Real World Harms Created by Advances in Artificial Intelligence
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Jul 14, 2024 |
#113. A Renaissance Man Reflects on the Creative Process and the Honing of Artistic Skills
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Jun 30, 2024 |
#112. Reclaiming the Vietnamese Heritage Her Refugee Father Never Shared
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Jun 30, 2024 |
#111. The National Park Service, Its Mission, and How it was Co-opted by the South to Celebrate the Confederacy
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Jun 29, 2024 |
#110. Research that Proved the Toxic Effects of Lead in Our Gasoline and in Our Drinking Water
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Jun 22, 2024 |
#109. Finding Meaning After Catastrophic Illness or Injury
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Jun 21, 2024 |
#108. The Amazing Auditory World of Sea Creatures
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Jun 16, 2024 |
#107. Teaching Social Justice Issues to White Students in a Wealthy Suburb of Boston
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Jun 15, 2024 |
#106. The Incredible Potential and Daunting Risks of Stem Cell Therapy
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Jun 15, 2024 |
#105. How Mandela Averted Civil War in South Africa
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Jun 12, 2024 |
#104. The Promise and Shortcomings of Massive Open Online Courses
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Jun 02, 2024 |
#103. Cognitive Biases that are Amplified by Social Media
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Jun 02, 2024 |
#102. How Bayesian Statistics Underpins Both Scientific Prediction and Everyday Functioning
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May 27, 2024 |
#101. Schadenfreude (Pleasure From Someone Else's Misfortune)
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May 22, 2024 |
#100. What Life Was Like in the Prehistoric Past
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May 19, 2024 |
#99. Ethical Dilemmas of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing
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May 03, 2024 |
#98. Re-examining the Evidence for the Genetic Basis of Mental Illness
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May 03, 2024 |
#97. How to Best Help the Most Vulnerable Children? Start Before They're Even Born!
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Apr 25, 2024 |
#96. Compassionate Care for a Devastating Disease
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Apr 24, 2024 |
#95. The Amazing Grit and Determination of the First Women Doctors
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Apr 16, 2024 |
#94. Can Trauma Be Inherited?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
#93. An Evolutionary Perspective on Mental Illness and Human Suffering
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Apr 08, 2024 |
#92. The Trailblazers of the Dance Theatre of Harlem
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Mar 31, 2024 |
#91. The Corporatization of American Health Care
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Mar 26, 2024 |
#90. Symbiotic Relationships with Bacteria
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Mar 26, 2024 |
#89. The History and Continued Threats of White Supremacist Terrorism
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Mar 24, 2024 |
#88. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
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Mar 17, 2024 |
#87. Hard Choices that the Green Revolution Poses
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Mar 11, 2024 |
86. How Religious Practice Creates Faith, Rather than the Other Way Around
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Mar 05, 2024 |
#85. The History of Myanmar (Burma)
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Feb 24, 2024 |
#84. Reflections of a Human Rights Leader
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Feb 24, 2024 |
#83. Unseen, Unheard, Yet a Clear Sense of Another’s Presence
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Feb 18, 2024 |
#82. Why Is It So Difficult to Promote Social Mobility and Equality of Opportunity?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
#81. The Neurology of Memory in the Continuity of Experience and Personal Identity
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Feb 08, 2024 |
#80. Political Dynamics of the Drug Cartels of Mexico
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Jan 31, 2024 |
#79. A Long-Neglected Form of Government with the Potential to Revitalize Democracy
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Jan 28, 2024 |
#78. Life-Affirming Ritual and Poetry for Believers and Skeptics Alike
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Jan 21, 2024 |
#77. The Challenges of Facilitating Conflict Resolution
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Jan 14, 2024 |
#76. The History of the Theory of Evolution
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Jan 14, 2024 |
#75. Antisemitism, Clear and Not-So-Clear
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Jan 14, 2024 |
#74. The Historical and Intellectual Roots of our Current Political Crisis
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Jan 08, 2024 |
#73. Media Literacy for Older Children
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Dec 31, 2023 |
#72. Media Literacy for Young Children
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Dec 24, 2023 |
#71. Disgust, the Emotion of Aversion
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Dec 21, 2023 |
#70. A Close Look at the Brief History of East Germany
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Dec 17, 2023 |
#69. Genes Are Only One Part of the Story
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Dec 10, 2023 |
#68. The Communal Nature of Knowledge
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Dec 10, 2023 |
#67. Ecologist Carl Safina on his Relationship with an Owl
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Nov 27, 2023 |
#66. A Window into the History of U.S.-Latin American Relations
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Nov 24, 2023 |
#65. How Evolution Gave Us Free Will (the Real Thing, Not an Illusion)
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Nov 19, 2023 |
#64. How Terrorism Ends
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Nov 12, 2023 |
#63. Period. End of Sentence: A New Chapter in the Fight for Menstrual Justice
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Nov 10, 2023 |
#62. A Photographer and Poet of Volcanoes
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Nov 10, 2023 |
#61. Emerging Uses of A.I. for Social Control and Weapon Systems
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Oct 23, 2023 |
#60. How Powerful People Get Away With It
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Oct 16, 2023 |
#59. The Neuroscience of Time
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Oct 09, 2023 |
#58. The Science and Meaning of Touch
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Oct 09, 2023 |
#57. The Neurology of Individual Differences
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Sep 24, 2023 |
#56. Philosophical Examination of Concepts in Psychology and Psychiatry
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Sep 20, 2023 |
#55. How to Best Encourage Individual Action on Climate Change
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Sep 20, 2023 |
#54. Speaking Truth to Power: Physicians for Human Rights
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Sep 13, 2023 |
#55. Creative Approaches to Asynchronous Online Learning
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Sep 13, 2023 |
#53. The Assumptions Upon Which Science Rests
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Sep 03, 2023 |
#52. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico
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Aug 29, 2023 |
#51. An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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Aug 29, 2023 |
#50. Culture and Justice Among the Maasai of Tanzania
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Aug 21, 2023 |
#49. How the Brain Processes Pain... and its Relief
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Aug 17, 2023 |
#48. The Challenges of Being a Single Woman in India
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Aug 13, 2023 |
#47. A Child of Holocaust Survivors
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Aug 13, 2023 |
#46. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Making of Gender Equality Law
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Aug 06, 2023 |
#45. Bizarre, Counter-Intuitive, and Seemingly Impossible, Yet True: Quantum Physics
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Jul 31, 2023 |
#44. Breaking Out of the Underclass in India
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Jul 28, 2023 |
#43. The Complexity of Gender Differences
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Jul 24, 2023 |
#42. The History and Science of Dreaming
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Jul 09, 2023 |
#41. The Philosopher Who Tried to Save (Secular) Morality
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Jul 09, 2023 |
#40. Alabama Sues the New York Times for Reporting on Racism and Civil Rights Protests in the Early 1960s
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Jul 02, 2023 |
#39. A Successful Recovery from Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.)
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Jun 19, 2023 |
#38. Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Intriguing New Data from the James Webb Space Telescope
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Jun 18, 2023 |
#37. A V.A. Surgeon Channels His Richly Varied Life Experiences Into Community Activism
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Jun 11, 2023 |
#36. The People’s Hospital: Better and Less Costly Medical Care, Putting Patients’ Needs Above Profit
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Jun 11, 2023 |
#35. Past Cataclysmic Changes in Climate Across the World Since its Beginning, with Lessons for Today
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Jun 04, 2023 |
#34. The Hidden Wonders of Human Anatomy
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May 29, 2023 |
#33. On Climbing Everest and Denali
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May 29, 2023 |
#32. Values in Science? You Bet!
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May 23, 2023 |
#31. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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May 14, 2023 |
#30. The History of the Right to Privacy
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May 14, 2023 |
#29. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
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May 14, 2023 |
#28. On the Receiving End of (Six!) Psychiatric Misdiagnoses
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May 09, 2023 |
#27. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
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May 01, 2023 |
#26. Sixty-Six Years of Figuring Out How the Brain Makes a Mind
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Apr 25, 2023 |
#25. How Did Life Originate on Earth?
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Apr 02, 2023 |
#24. The Demands of Classical Violin, Time Distortion within Performance Anxiety, and the Wonder of Musical Improvisation
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Apr 02, 2023 |
#23. Aztec History and Culture Before the Spanish Conquest
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Mar 19, 2023 |
#22. Common Misconceptions About the Relationship Between Sleep and Mental Health
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Mar 19, 2023 |
#21. Two Identities: A Physicist-Administrator at Los Alamos and Also a Rabbi
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Mar 07, 2023 |
#20. The Awesome Benefits and Potential Dangers of Recent Advances in Gene-Editing Technology
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Mar 05, 2023 |
#19. The High-Stakes Work of a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
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Feb 26, 2023 |
#18. Land Conservancy in the Private Sector: Values and Process
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Feb 26, 2023 |
#17. Human Waste: Underappreciated Treasure for Energy Production, Water Reclamation, Medical Interventions, and the Tracking of Epidemics
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Feb 19, 2023 |
#16. The Transition of Hong Kong to Chinese Rule
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Feb 12, 2023 |
#15. Ethical Complexities in Assisted Dying
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Feb 06, 2023 |
#14. A Neuroscientist Challenges the Prevailing Model of Physiological Regulation
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Jan 29, 2023 |
#13. Human-Wildlife Conflict: Ill-Fated Attempts at Control vs. Cultivating an Attitude of Coexistence
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Dec 25, 2022 |
#12. Congressman Jamie Raskin’s Inspiring Response to Two Unthinkable, Juxtaposed Traumas: The Insurrection of January 6th, the Day after Burying His Beloved Son
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Dec 24, 2022 |
#11. How Does the Brain Enable Us To Perceive, Make Sense Of, and Learn From Sound?
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Dec 21, 2022 |
#10. Coming Soon(ish): Human Hibernation!
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Dec 18, 2022 |
#9. An Audacious Vehicle for Fostering Math Appreciation and Fascination
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Dec 16, 2022 |
#8. The Momentous Lawsuit that Determined Who Owns Your DNA
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Dec 04, 2022 |
#7. Civilization and Water
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Dec 03, 2022 |
#6. How Placebo Effects Complicate Medicine
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Nov 26, 2022 |
#2. A Promising Approach to Schizophrenia
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Nov 25, 2022 |
#3. Recently Disclosed Vatican Records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII
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Nov 25, 2022 |
#4. Race Relations in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Nov 25, 2022 |
#5. Early Women Scientists: Their History and a Poem for Each
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Nov 25, 2022 |
#1. The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
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Nov 24, 2022 |