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Science Friday: How Many Social Network Identities Is Too Many?

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There are many social networks on the Internet and users often have multiple online identities and personalities. Aired Jan. 14, 2011 [17:40 min]
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Can Social Networking Move Beyond Facebook?

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Can other social networks make users unfriend Facebook?
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: How Humans and Insects Conquered the Earth

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Ecologist Edward O. Wilson discusses current theories of why humans and insects have been so successful on Earth. He looks at social organization as key to their success. Aired Apr. 13, 2012 [30:20] Links to a video about E.O. Wilson...
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Science Friday: Can Google Plus Compete With Facebook and Twitter?

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Search engine guru Danny Sullivan discusses how Google Plus compares to other social network titans.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: In Twitter We Trust: Can Social Media Sway Voters?

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Scientists are examining how social media can influence the opinions of voters.
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Science Friday: App Chat: Social Media Gets Newsy

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Ellis Hamburger, a reporter at The Verge, talks about why social media giants are betting on news.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: The Science of Getting a 'Yes'

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In this segment, Ira talks with a social psychologist about persuasion, and psychological tricks for helping you get what you want.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Annoying Book Probes the Science of Irritations

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From the psychology of trash talk to frustrated magnets, a new book asks if science can explain life's annoyances.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: On Social Media, the Kids Are All Right

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In It's Complicated, Internet scholar danah boyd debunks myths about teens' online lives.
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Science Friday: The Superorganism

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Ira talks with eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler about ants, bees, and other social insects.
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Science Friday: Connected

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How can your friends -- and your friends' friends -- affect you?
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Science Friday: Improving Healthcare, One Search at a Time

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By combing through 100 million search queries, researchers detected a previously unknown interaction between two commonly prescribed drugs.
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Science Friday: Can Gaming Make Us More Social?

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NYU's Katherine Isbister imagines a future where technology connects us to other people, not avatars.
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Backstory Radio

Back Story Radio: The Departed: Extinction in America

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Audio [52:02] from BackStory Radio discussing the rate of plant and animal extinction, what it means for our ecosystem and how Americans grapple with the idea of species loss. The American History Guys ask pertinent questions linking...
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Science Friday: Frans De Waal and 'The Age of Empathy'

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Is it human nature to be greedy and selfish? Primatologist Frans de Waal doesn't think so. In his new book "The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons For a Kinder Society" de Waal says empathy and solidarity are our primate heritage. De Waal...
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Microexpressions: More Than Meets the Eye

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By studying split-second facial expressions, psychologists hope to uncover hidden emotional cues.
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Science Friday: Could a Lack of Empathy Explain Cruelty?

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Simon Baron-Cohen explains the consequences of decreased empathy.
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Science Friday: What Grosses You Out?

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Rachel Herz discusses her book That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, and shares the origins of this general feeling of disgust as well as human attitudes toward gross things.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Online Office Applications

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Hear about a new suite of office programs -- running in your web browser.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Why It's Hard to Admit to Being Wrong

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Do you have a hard time admitting you were wrong? Turns out it's really not your fault.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Smiling in Groups

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Smile, smile, smile. Happiness may be catching.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Buying Experiences, Not Things, May Increase Happiness

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Psychologists say buying experiences, not things, can can make you happier.
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Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: e.o. Wilson's 'Anthill'

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Biologist E.O. Wilson joins us to talk about his first novel, 'Anthill.' [34 mins. 56]
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sustainable Small Business Solutions for World's Poor

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Listen as Jacqueline Novogratz discusses investing in sustainable small business solutions for the world's poor. The goal, says Novogratz, CEO of Acumen Fund, is to find a way to bring essential services to low income people not just...

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