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Radio Replay: This Is Your Brain On Ads
After you read this sentence, pause for a moment to think back on advertisements you first heard when you were a child.Perhaps you recall a favorite jingle or the catchphrase of a cereal mascot. You...
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Rewinding & Rewriting: The Alternate Universes in Our Heads
There's a moment from nearly a decade ago that's still on loop in Laura Ogden's mind. When Laura plays back this mental video, she imagines an alternate ending. A happier ending.There's a technical...
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Don't Panic! What We Can Learn From Chaos
Chaos is neither friend nor foe. It just is. This week: two very different perspectives on how to deal with life's most tumultuous moments.We begin in 2015, in a poor slum in the West African country...
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When Everything Clicks: The Power Of Judgment-Free Learning
Frisbee coach Martin Levy is a big fan of the clicker. He uses it to train his border collies to perform complex jumps and twirls on the Frisbee field. In 2012, after successfully using a clicker to...
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Hungry, Hungry Hippocampus: Why and How We Eat
Anyone who's tried (and failed) to follow a diet knows that food is more than fuel. The reasons we eat are even embedded in our language. When we're in an unfamiliar place, we yearn for comfort food....
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Looking Back: Reflecting On The Past To Understand The Present
In a way, all of us are time travelers. If we just pause and close our eyes we can wander back to our first kiss...our first breakup...that grandparent we should have visited...the summer that went on...
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Summer Melt: Why Aren't Students Showing Up For College?
Every year, many students who have overcome daunting obstacles in high school receive good news — they've been accepted to college.These kids represent a success story: through hard work and...
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Fake News: An Origin Story
"Fake news" is a phrase that may seem specific to our particular moment and time in American history. But Columbia University Professor Andie Tucher says fake news is deeply rooted in American...
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Who Gets Power — And Why It Can Corrupt Even The Best Of Us
If you've ever visited the palm-lined neighborhoods of Beverly Hills, you've probably noticed that the rich and famous aren't the only ones drawn there.Stargazers also flock to this exclusive enclave,...
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Fresh Starts
In 2006, Derek Amato suffered a major concussion from diving into a shallow swimming pool. When he woke up in the hospital, he was different. He discovered he was really good a playing piano.Derek is...
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Watch Your Mouth
If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that the different languages you speak will make you stretch in different ways.Languages like Spanish or French require you to remember the...
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Creating God
Let's take a moment to go back in time.For most of human history, we lived in small groups of about 50 people. Everyone knew everybody. If you told a lie, stole someone's dinner, or failed to defend...
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Why Now?
Nearly a quarter century ago, a group of women accused a prominent playwright of sexual misconduct. A Boston newspaper published allegations of sexual harassment, unwanted touching and forced kissing....
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Can You Handle The Truth?
The truth can be a tough pill to swallow.We avoid getting an important medical test done, fearing bad results. We turn off the news when the headlines make us upset, even though the information is...
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Too Little, Too Much: How Poverty and Wealth Affect Our Minds
Have you ever noticed that when something important is missing in your life, your brain can only seem to focus on that missing thing?Two researchers have dubbed this phenomenon scarcity, and they...
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More Divided Than Ever: Excavating the Roots Of Our Political Landscape
The nastiness of American politics today may seem extreme compared to the tone of earlier eras. But historian David Moss says our nation's founders were also happy to sling mud. Thomas Jefferson's...
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Social Stigma Is One Reason The Opioid Crisis Is Hard To Confront
There are many reasons why the opioid crisis is so hard to confront. One of them is social stigma. It often extends beyond users themselves, to their families.Hope and Pete Troxell live in Frederick,...
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Bringing Up Baby
Bababababa, dadadadada, ahgagaga. Got that?Babies are speaking to us all the time, but most of us have no clue what they're saying. To us non-babies, it all sounds like charming, mysterious,...
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Yum and Yuck: The Psychology Of What We Eat...And What We Spit Out
Paul Rozin has been studying the psychology and culture of food for more than 40 years. And he's come to appreciate that food fills many of our needs, but hunger is just one. "Food is not just...
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Fresh Starts: Tales Of Renewal For A New Year
In 2006, Derek Amato suffered a major concussion from diving into a shallow swimming pool. When he woke up in the hospital, he was different. He discovered he was really good a playing piano. Derek is...
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