I'll See You and Rake You. It's an Act of Overt Harm.

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The National Academies of Sciences did a study on childhood poverty and showed that it would actually be cheaper to solve the problem. The goal here is to fortify soil in order to let lots of different plants grow, you want to give kids enough input to help them figure out what they are going to become.

If you managed to stay awake during Bio 101, then you probably think you have a basic understanding of how your brain works. Not so, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett. In this cerebral yet highly entertaining conversation with Next Big Idea Club curator Daniel Pink, Lisa says our brains are made for budgeting, not thinking. She debunks the myth of the lizard brain. And she makes the far-out claim that everything you see and hear, including this podcast, is a hallucination.