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Tessa Hirschfeld-Stoler Receives 2022 SfN Science Educator Award

Report from Neuroscience 2022

Interview with Tessa Hirschfeld-Stoler on the rewards of sharing hands-on science with students of all ages.

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Randy Blakely Receives 2022 SfN Science Educator Award

Report from Neuroscience 2022

We chat with Randy Blakey on the satisfactions of mentoring and outreach, paying it forward, and more.

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Debra Yourick Receives 2021 SfN Science Educator Award

Report from Neuroscience 2021

Interview with Debra Yourick on using near-peer mentors to help kids get excited about science, and more.

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Stephen Macknik Receives 2021 SfN Science Educator Award

Report from Neuroscience 2021

Interview with Stephen Macknik on storytelling in science, magic, and more.

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Baked-In: How Racism is Coded into Technology

Report from the International Neuroethics Society Conference, 2020

Sociologist Ruha Benjamin described problems of racism embedded in our processes of building and using technologies, and offered some potential solutions during the 2020 meeting of the International Neuroethics Society

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John Archie Pollock Receives 2020 SfN Science Educator Award

Interview with John Pollock on storytelling in science, the rewards of outreach, apps and other fun for pandemic sharing, and more.

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Dissecting Why We Laugh

Unlike most reflexes, laughing seems to serve no biological purpose, making it a mystery to psychologists and neurologists alike.

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#WSF19: Can We Cure Deafness and Blindness?

This year’s World Science Festival invited Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin, Dana Alliance member Jim Hudspeth, E.J. Chichilnisky, and perceptual navigation specialist Daniel Kish to talk about the way society treats people who are hard of hearing or blind.

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#WSF19: The Promise of Psychedelics

A recent World Science Festival event invited four experts to discuss the pros and cons of psychedelics, a class of drugs that has been picked back up by researchers due to its use in treating anxiety and depression.