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Professor Jesse Rogerson drops in to deliver science news covering: Based on research, your learning style may not actually help you learn; Are we alone? The institute searching for alien signals is using a new way to answer that age-old question; Is recent music losing its feeling? This study suggests it is; and How moths evolved their genitals into anti-bat weapons. Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine – author of Attached – gives an overview of attachment theory and explains how to become more secure in your relationships. (Check out Amir's recent book Secure: The Revolutionary Guide to Creating a Secure Life here.) Radio host Kim Komando gives an overview of data brokers and how to take back control of your privacy. (Subscribe to Kim's AI and tech newsletter here.) Sociologist Jessie Ford explains why young men in a recent study described sex with feelings of fear, vigilance, and shame. On Conspiracy Corner, political science professor Lee Kuhnle reveals how a fake 1960s government report convinced people that peace was bad for the economy and why the unsettling idea that war is profitable might contain some truth. (Find Lee's book Uncover Up: How to Think Clearly in an Age of Conspiracies here.)
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Segments:
(00:00) Introduction
(00:57) Jesse Rogerson pt. 1
(10:00) Jesse Rogerson pt. 2
(20:00) Amir Levine pt. 1
(30:00) Amir Levine pt. 2
(39:50) Kim Komando
(49:50) Jessie Ford
(59:50) Lee Kuhnle pt. 1
(1:09:50) Lee Kuhnle pt. 2
(1:19:10) Sign-off
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