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The fragility of choice
Where do our opinions come from, and how easy is it for people to change them?
Why do we find things disgusting?
Meet a ‘disgustologist’ who has been uncovering answers to our uneasy feelings
Why living in the city could make you happier
What makes some cities more successful than others?
Ubernomics
Does behaviour tracking help tech companies become better at saying sorry?
Understanding emotions: Should we follow our hearts?
How noticing things in our bodies can help us read our feelings
How do we spot rogue cops?
Within every police force there are bad cops, but could there be a trick to spotting them
The importance of fairness
Why it pays to be fair, and why people are less selfish than you think
The science of sleep
What does sleep do for us, and what can go wrong if we don't get enough?
Do cities need rules?
How does the way a city is run change its inhabitants' lives?
The new normal
How Donald Trump is reshaping our ideas of normal behaviour
The science of addiction
Why drug addicts want drugs – even when they don’t
Fighting pandemics
The 2020 pandemic has transformed our world, but it won’t be the last to do so