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NPR’s Shankar Vedantam explores the ‘Hidden Brain’

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Current State’s Katie Cook has a conversation with NPR Science Correspondent Shankar Vedantam about his NPR podcast Hidden Brain.

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You rely on your favorite news sources to keep you informed about what’s happening in the world, but sometimes you want to know more than the what of current events, you want to know the why. NPR’s social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam reports on human behavior and the social sciences to help the curious listener think about the news in unusual and interesting ways, and he takes this reporting even deeper as the host of the podcast Hidden Brain.

Current State’s Katie Cook has a conversation with Shankar Vedantam about his reporting and the Hidden Brain podcast.

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