| May 14, 2012 |
Sizing Up Weapons
- People think others are larger and stronger if they’re holding a weapon in their hands.
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| April 27, 2012 |
Chilly Relationships Roundup
- Social anxiety can affect how you sense temperature.
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| April 20, 2012 |
Podcast for 20 April 2012
- SOUND SCIENCE - Can sounds influence dreams? Emotional similarities between music and speech. Does a deeper voice lead people to vote for a political candidate? Baboons that recognize words. And baby goats with accents.
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| March 26, 2012 |
Australian Extinction
- Human hunters drove Australia’s largest animals to extinction around 40,000 years ago.
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| March 23, 2012 |
Podcast for 23 March 2012
- EVOLUTION & EXTINCTION - What really happened to Australia's missing megafauna, how carnivores lost their sweet tooth, why lovelorn fruit flies resort to alcohol, strategic miscarriages in monkeys, and a new frog species is discovered in plain sight.
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| March 16, 2012 |
Podcast for 16 March 2012
- SCIENCE OF SOCIETY - Do wealthier people tend to have fewer scruples? The social costs of mass incarceration. Seeing-eye smartphones for the blind. And, new evidence calls an accepted tenet of science into question. Also: how to make plastic from plants.
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| March 13, 2012 |
Ethics & Social Class
- The higher your socioeconomic status, the more prone you may be to unethical behavior.
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| March 9, 2012 |
Podcast for 9 March 2012
- NEW MEDICINE - A rare mutation that protects people from diabetes and cancer. How the pancreas "tastes" sugar. And a new implantable microchip that delivers an osteoporosis drug. Also: chimpanzees may yawn for the same reason humans do.
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| March 5, 2012 |
Contagious Yawns
- Both humans and chimpanzees can’t resist the urge to yawn when others do.
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| February 29, 2012 |
Language Delays
- Screening criteria for language delays in children depend on the culture.
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| February 23, 2012 |
Endangered Voices
- Digital technology and social media are helping save endangered languages.
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| February 10, 2012 |
Politics Roundup
- Research suggests that conservatives pay more attention to unpleasant images and liberals, to pleasant ones.
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| February 8, 2012 |
Sex Ratio & Spending
- The perception that women are scarce may make men less careful with their money.
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| January 26, 2012 |
A Dog’s Eye View of People
- One key to our successful long-term relationship with dogs may lie in the eyes.
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| January 25, 2012 |
Kinder, Gentler Monkeys
- Rhesus macaque monkeys become kinder after inhaling the hormone oxytocin.
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| January 20, 2012 |
Podcast for 20 January 2012
- ANIMALS & PEOPLE - Levitating flies, what dogs and babies have in common, how oxytocin makes kinder, gentler monkeys, a fish that mimics an octopus that mimics a fish, and how bats hear with both sides of the brain.
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| January 11, 2012 |
Sounds & Colors
- Like humans, chimpanzees associate high-pitched sounds with bright colors and low-pitched sounds with dark colors.
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| January 6, 2012 |
Calendar Roundup
- Researchers say they’ve developed a better calendar.
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| January 2, 2012 |
The Oldest Oldies
- Some of the first sound recordings ever made are finally being heard again.
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| November 22, 2011 |
Cooking Up Evolution
- Scientists have new evidence that cooking influenced human evolution.
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| November 7, 2011 |
Neanderthal Legs
- Scientists have figured out how Neanderthals got by with short legs.
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| October 6, 2011 |
Twitter Mood
- Sociologists analyzed Twitter posts to track daily and seasonal mood swings around the world.
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| September 30, 2011 |
Podcast for 30 September 2011
- HORMONES & BEHAVIOR - Testosterone and fatherhood, the genetics of oxytocin and depression, gender and spatial reasoning revisited, where taste is found in the brain, and more.
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| September 28, 2011 |
Testosterone & Fatherhood
- Men's testosterone levels drop significantly when they become fathers.
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| September 15, 2011 |
Sex & Spatial Thinking
- Gender differences in spatial reasoning abilities may be strongly influenced by culture.
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| September 2, 2011 |
Ancient Food Roundup
- Lager beers have been around for about 500 years, thanks to the meeting of yeasts from the Old and New World.
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| August 30, 2011 |
Shrinking Brains
- Our brains shrink by up to 15% over our lifetimes, but those of chimpanzees do not.
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| August 2, 2011 |
Beauty & Brains
- One area of the brain becomes active when we experience beauty.
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| July 22, 2011 |
Podcast for 22 July 2011
- THE BRAIN & SOCIETY: How the brain experiences beauty, what soccer reveals about the mind, and why lazing around in a hammock could benefit your memory. Also, how your cell phone could help you kick the habit.
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| June 22, 2011 |
Neanderthal Hands
- Evidence from ancient teeth suggests that most Neanderthals were right-handed, like us.
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| April 29, 2011 |
Podcast for 29 April 2011 – Whale Songs & Zebra Stripes
- Cultural revolutions in humpback whale songs, a barcode scanner for zebra stripes, a prehistoric toothache, and changing skull sizes in the Iberian Peninsula.
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| April 28, 2011 |
Beat Deafness
- Researchers have identified the first known case of beat deafness.
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| April 27, 2011 |
Shifting Skull Sizes
- Over the past few centuries, women's skulls have grown closer to the size of men's, at least in one part of the world.
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| March 9, 2011 |
Ancient Egyptian Prosthetics
- Artificial toes from ancient Egypt may have been functional prosthetics.
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| March 8, 2011 |
Loneliness & The Immune System
- The immune systems of chronically lonely people switch from fighting viruses to fighting bacterial infections.
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| February 25, 2011 |
Podcast for 25 February 2011: Language & Behavior
- The surprising way the brain processes Braille, bilingualism staves off dementia, and new research on stuttering. Also: why being lonely could change how your immune system works, and the relationship between popularity and bullying.
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| February 4, 2011 |
Out of Africa Roundup
- New discoveries in the Middle East suggest humans left Africa much earlier than previously thought.
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| February 3, 2011 |
Eating Insects
- Eating insects might sound yucky, but doing so could cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.
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| January 21, 2011 |
First Clothes Roundup
- Researchers date the advent of clothing by the evolution of lice.
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| January 5, 2011 |
Persian Gulf Civilization
- Today's Persian Gulf may cover the site of advanced Stone Age civilizations.
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| December 15, 2010 |
Neanderthal Brains
- Brain development in the first year of a baby's life set us apart from our extinct Neanderthal relatives.
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| December 9, 2010 |
Ancient Music
- Playing ancient Peruvian instruments inside the ruins of a temple gives researchers clues to the music's cultural significance.
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| December 6, 2010 |
Toxic Cavefish
- A toxic plant used in a traditional religious ritual is shaping the evolution of a Mexican cavefish.
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| December 3, 2010 |
Podcast
- Bacterial poison darts, a new approach to cancer research, turning skin into blood, depressing night-lights and the differences between human and Neanderthal brains.
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| November 12, 2010 |
Body Networks Roundup
- Your body could one day act as a cell phone antenna.
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| September 30, 2010 |
Whale Menopause
- Menopause occurs only in humans and two species of whales.
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| August 18, 2010 |
Tibetan Adaptation
- Tibetans have a unique genetic adaptation that allows them to survive high altitude, low oxygen conditions.
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| July 8, 2010 |
Orangutan Gestures
- Orangutans use gestures to convey specific intentions, and expect appropriate responses.
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| July 5, 2010 |
Deforestation & Malaria
- Malaria rates go up after areas of the Amazon rainforest are logged.
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| July 2, 2010 |
Mating Psychology Roundup
- Research suggests that we're more attracted to people when others find them attractive.
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