PLOS One
peer-reviewed open-access journal
Episodes
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#5616: What Your Window View Does to Your BrainA 1984 Science study, cortisol in cord blood, and why trees beat sky and grass — the research on what your window view actually does to you. -
#5468: Why Nobody Stops the Candy Bin GrazersA hand, a mouth, forward motion: what open-bin snacking at Mahane Yehuda reveals about norms nobody enforces anymore. -
#5421: Why Secular Israelis Still Fast on Yom KippurA majority of secular Israeli Jews fast on Yom Kippur. What the data say about how faith gets handed down — and how observance becomes a weapon. -
#5825: Why Voices Sound Good in Some Rooms and Not OthersSame words, opposite effect. What the research actually says about why some voices hold you and others make you reach for skip. -
#5727: Do We Still Need This Memorial?Three years after October 7, a quiet question — "do we still need this?" — collides with shame, stigma, and a coming election. -
#5591: Chronic PTSD: The Diagnosis That Doesn't ExistChronic PTSD isn't in the DSM. Complex PTSD is in the ICD-11. Continuous traumatic stress is in neither. What happens to patients in between?