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Researchers discover a psychological vaccine against misinformation.

Building an Immunity to Fake News

With federal scientific agencies facing restrictions on what they say and when, some scientists are planning to march on Washington.

Federal Science Freedom, Cancer Death Rates, Snake Trackers

Talking and texting on your phone while walking on a treadmill can reduce your balance by 19 to 45 percent.

Is Your Smartphone Weighing Down Your Workout?

Internalized stereotypes that can guide career choice manifest as young as age 6.

Girls Lose Sight of Own Brilliance at Young Age

In this segment, California governor Jerry Brown talks about how states can take the lead on issues like climate change and clean energy—with or without Washington, D.C.

How States Can Step Up for Science

Why some of the oxygen in lunar soil may have come from our ozone layer. Plus, is the moon more ancient than we thought?

An Earthly Origin for Moon Oxygen?

One of the more unexpected symptoms of spaceflight may be trouble reading fine print.

How Spaceflight Alters the Eyes

Researchers have designed a battery that runs on stomach acid to power ingestible sensors.

Harvesting Power From the Gut

Holographic cosmology is a way of simplifying mind-boggling mathematical models of our universe. But it does not necessarily mean we live in a hologram.

Consider the Universe. Now, Subtract Time and Gravity.

A look at the scientific obstacles and breakthroughs involved in finding and developing new antibiotics.

How Can We Discover Better Antibiotics?

The roar of airplanes and highway traffic hits the ears of 97 percent of Americans.  There are negative effects of noiseâ--and an unexpected silver lining.

City Noise Could Quiet the Brain for Some

Journalist Dave Levitan provides a guide to cut through the deceptive arguments politicians use to undermine scientific evidence.

Political Rhetoric That Can Distort Science

The smartphone sensors that allow the device to count your footsteps could also give hackers clues to your access codes.

Sensing Steps, And Perhaps Your PIN

Studies have shown that many lakes and streams are contaminated with human-made chemicals that water treatment facilities don't remove.

Freshwater Quality, Fungus-Farming Ants, And A Shrimp That Kills With Sound

The moons plumes contain evidence of hydrothermal activity which, on Earth, support thriving ecological communities.

In Search For Solar System Life, Enceladus Climbs To Top Of The Heap

"You've got to be willing to risk the chance of looking like a failure." - Lewis Howes

If you enjoyed this episode, check out show notes and more at http://lewishowes.com/474

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In part 2 of this 2 part episode we join James Scott as he presents some of the main arguments in his upcoming book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. This presentation was recorded at Yale University on April 13th, 2017.

Yale University

Slavery and Its Legacies - James Scott - A Deep History of the Earliest States Part 2

Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a quiz about people whose names are words. For example, if he asks, "Is the comedian who was one of the Three Amigos vertically challenged?" you'd answer with name of a funny man whose last name is also an adjective. http://waywordradio.org

1470-Word-Quiz-Names-As-Words

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