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Revealing the Hidden Brain, with Shankar Vedantam

Speaking of Psychology

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Scientists and the Hidden Brain

i think of this as being just as enjoyable as watching net flacks. When we reach out to scientists, they know they 're speaking with an interlocutor who genuinely understands and gets them. And when you present einstein as a genius beyond all geniuses, whose ideas are incomprehensible to us, even a hundred years later,. many students are perfectly happy to say, ok, albert einstein was a super smart guy, but they don't think that they can become the next albert Einsteins. It's really important to communicate to people the struggle it takes to get to the top of the mountain.

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