Books by Shankar Vedantam

Shankar Vedantam is a science correspondent for National Public Radio. Between 2006 and 2009, he authored the weekly “Department of Human Behavior” column in The Washington Post and was afterward promoted to national science writer at the newspaper. He is the winner of several journalism awards, a 2009-2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and the author of “The Ghosts of Kashmir” and “The Hidden Brain.”

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The Hidden Brain

Shankar Vedantam

In “The Hidden Brain,” Shankar Vedantam explores the complex world of our unconscious lives. After going through the theory to establish how little we know about what is happening in our brains, he journeys through several compelling narratives and thought-provoking studies to demonstrate why the concept of “common sense” is an illusion – and why a belief in the opposite isn’t innocuous or harmless.

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