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The Next Big Idea

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The Best Thing for Your Nervous System Is Another Human

Sally Kohn: The idea that words are a tool for regulating bodies is, to me, a remarkable concept. She says we have socially dependent nervous systems where we are the caretakers of each other's nervous systems. "We should be trying to figure out what this means for us and what it means for public discourse," she says.

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