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Oct 2020
52m 14s

Beyond Doomscrolling

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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There’s no question that 2020 has been a tough year. We're grappling with a global pandemic. A deep recession. Fresh reminders of racial injustice. But today — without minimizing the justifiable pain that 2020 has brought to so many people — we wanted to explore another way of seeing things. We talk with psychologist Steven Pinker about why it's so hard to s ... Show More
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