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Shankar Vedantam Explores The "Hidden Brain" In New NPR Show

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NPR has a brand new weekly, hour-long show called “Hidden Brain."  The program explores the unconscious patterns behind human behavior. It incorporates NPR's signature storytelling style, and the latest scientific research about why we humans do what we do.  The idea started as a series of reports on Morning Edition, then became a podcast, and is now a weekly program.  WPSU’s Kristine Allen spoke with NPR's social science correspondent, Shankar Vedantam. He's the host of the new show, heard Sunday afternoons at 1:00 on WPSU-FM.

Kristine Allen is Program Director of WPSU-FM. She also files feature stories for WPSU on the arts, culture, science, and more. When she's not at WPSU, Kris enjoys playing folk fiddle, acting, singing and portrait-sketching. She is also a self-confessed "science geek." Kris started working in public radio in college, at age 17, and says she "just couldn't stop."