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SNAP—the federal assistance program better known as food stamps—helps put food on the table of nearly one in eight Americans today. But, as new legislation is p…
ICYMI, our old friend the food pyramid has been flipped on its head. The Trump administration recently issued new dietary guidelines that it says will "revoluti…
For most of human history, humans have fed ourselves by foraging, with a little bit of hunting when we were lucky—think more gatherer than hunter. Picking edibl…
The Power Of Categories examines how categories define us — how, if given a chance, humans will jump into one category or another. People need them, want them. …
In Our Computers, Ourselves, a look at the ways technology affects us, and the main question is : Are computers changing human character? You'll hear from cybor…
In America personality is often seen as destiny. Whether you're a famous CEO like Steve Jobs or a serial criminal like Hannibal Lecter, most of us think that ou…
We know about the power of clothes to affect how others see us. But does clothing have the power to actually change us on the inside? To boost our intellectual …
What do you want to be when you grow up? This is a question we ask children, and adults. In American culture the concept of the future self is critical, require…
We're living in a black and white world, where the stories we tell ourselves lock us into one side or the other. These stories define us – imprison or liberate …
It's a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. We look at two institutions that took away that choice: convents circa the 1960s and a sum…
