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Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
You Don't Need a Crystal Ball
49 minutes Posted Mar 28, 2022 at 7:40 pm.
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When disaster strikes — from the explosion of a space shuttle to the spread of a deadly virus — we want to know whether we could have avoided catastrophe. Did anyone speak up with concerns about the situation? And if so, why didn’t someone listen? This week, we revisit a favorite episode about the psychology of warnings, and how we can all become better at predicting the future.

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