Kristen French

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    Your Voice Gives Away Valuable Personal Information

    The privacy risks of always-listening voice control systems—and how to protect against them

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    How Having Kids Makes Parents Disgust-Proof

    All those dirty diapers make it pretty hard to get grossed out about anything else

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    Your Infant Knows Exactly What Your Baby Talk Means

    It may help infants learn vowel sounds

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    Why the Do Nothing Challenge Doesn’t Do Much for You

    Boredom lab researcher James Danckert says our collective obsession is misplaced

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    In Pursuit of a Psychedelic Without the Hallucination

    Making magic mushrooms not quite so magic

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    I Turn Scientific Renderings of Space into Art

    Illustrator Luís Calçada walks a fine line between scientific truth and imagination

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    The Search for Where Consciousness Lives in the Brain

    A new technology could help scientists answer an old question

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    This Hidden Brain Region Could Help You Stay Resilient in Old Age

    A surprising measure of frailty and grip strength

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    Delusions Are Often Not-So-Delusional After All

    A radical shift in understanding psychosis

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    What “Primate” and Other Slasher Monkey Movies Get Wrong

    A primatologist explains why monkeys aren’t monsters