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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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—Sojourner Ahebee '18, African and African American Studies

Alexander Berger
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.
Alexander Berger, BA, MA ’11, Managing director, The Open Philanthropy Project
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