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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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Studying the humanities at Stanford
“I'm someone who's always been really interested in big questions that take a long time to arrive to."
—Sojourner Ahebee '18, African and African American Studies
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
Photo by Ker Than
July 2, 2019
A Hollywood treasure trove at Stanford
July 16, 2019
Calvin F. Quate, inventor of advanced microscopes, dies at 95
July 10, 2019
Three Books program invites new students to think about cities
July 5, 2019
Photo by Misha Bruk
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.
