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Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam is a science correspondent for NPR. The focus of his reporting is on human behavior and the social sciences, and how research in those fields can get listeners to think about the news in unusual and interesting ways. More on Shankar...

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The Key to Disaster Survival? Friends and Neighbors

Posted on February 1, 2012 in Posts

Political scientist Daniel Aldrich went halfway around the world to discover that the people who will help you survive a natural disaster are usually neighbors.… read more »