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How coronavirus and civil unrest put children’s health at riskOrganizations are just starting to address the traumatic impacts of the pandemic and civil unrest on children.

Women favour their daughters while men prefer their sons, study revealsTurns out your parents probably do have a favourite child - and it might not be you (depending on your gender)

Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?As Trump himself might say, there’s something going on.

An Anthropologist Walks Into A Bar And Asks, 'Why Is This Joke Funny?'Graduate student Robert Lynch is on a quest to deconstruct our built-in instinct for humor, and find out why making people laugh could be important to the way we've adapted to survive.

How What Makes You Laugh (And Cringe) Reveals Your Hidden Biases This week on Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam looks at what we find funny and what, well, crosses the line. Comedian Bill Burr joins us to talk about why race, gender and Caitlin Jenner can be so funny.

Week in Ideas: Christopher SheaAlso in this column: truth-telling texters and humorless self-deluders.

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