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Ep 222: The Saffron Trail

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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Is There a Flip Side to Social Media?

There are a lot of technology to day for manopulation of the brain. For example, in the context of social media, everything becomes much more redictive. And it strikes me that this also happens in thecontext of food, where our brain is drawn toward sweet food. There are certain kinds of foods that we get addicted to. This is an add that process foods take advantage of. They are not just designed to be tasty, but they are designed to be addictive. In fact, that is a fundamental, uno design imperative of process food because whoever's making them wants you to go out and buy them again, again and again. So people can't eat just one tag line

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