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  • kidholdingbrain

    How Poverty Changes Kids’ Brains

    Hill Street Studios/Getty Images When children grow up in poverty, their brains can take a different shape. That’s one of the stark and uncomfortable findings from the lab of Kimberly Noble, a pediatrician and cognitive neuroscientist at Teachers College, Columbia University. Noble has used MRI scans to study the brains of children and found that […]
  • Jabr_HERO

    Half Male, Half Female, Total Animal

    Mixed-sex animals teach us about our own multifarious nature.