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Pokémon on the brain
Adults who played Pokémon videogames extensively as children have a brain region that responds preferentially to images of Pikachu and other characters from the series.
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Deans Debra Satz and Jennifer Widom offer words of wisdom to undergraduates.
In humanities classes you learn that people come at the world differently—and the key to a reasonable, productive disagreement is hearing somebody out and inhabiting their perspective.
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Investigating Public Policy and Sexual Freedoms
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July 2, 2019
Stanford course moves beyond the missions in Native American studies
November 19, 2019
Life-changing first glimpse of a laser
November 19, 2019
Stanford honors Nona Chiariello and Niraj Dangoria with 2019 Marsh O’Neill Awards
November 18, 2019
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All of our professors and students have different backgrounds, perspectives, and dreams. But it’s the ways they work together and the qualities they share that make H&S special.
