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Nature Podcast

22 February 2018: A focus on adolescence

Nature Podcast

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🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, a teenage special: defining adolescence; high school researchers; and the science of teen risk taking.

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Nature

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In a experiment, I don't know yet.

0:06.0

Why is blight so far?

0:08.0

Like, it sounds so simple.

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They had no idea.

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But now the data's...

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I find this not only refreshing, but at some level astounding.

0:20.0

Nature. Welcome back to the Nature podcast. This week we've got an adolescent special. We'll be

0:29.8

defining adolescents and taking a look at the science of teen risk-taking. Plus getting high school

0:35.5

students to do university level research research. This is The Nature

0:39.8

podcast for the 22nd of February 2018. I'm Adam Levy. And I'm Benjamin Thompson.

0:47.8

So listeners, this special episode of The Nature podcast is just part of a wider collection of news

0:53.8

features, comment pieces and research articles published across the Nature podcast is just part of a wider collection of news features, comment pieces and

0:55.8

research articles published across the Nature family of journals and in Scientific American.

1:01.7

Find the whole collection at nature.com forward slash collections, forward slash adolescence.

1:08.2

With that in mind, it's probably quite important to work out what the word

1:12.1

adolescence actually means. Does it just refer to somebody's age, or is it more of a developmental

1:17.7

thing? I reached out to Ron Dahl, director of the Institute of Human Development at the

1:22.7

University of California, Berkeley, to see if adolescence is something that we can agree on the

1:27.3

definition of. One of the things that I find most interesting about trying to even define California, Berkeley, to see if adolescence is something that we can agree on the definition

1:27.7

of.

1:28.5

One of the things that I find most interesting about trying to even define conceptually,

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