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they went by happy, they went fire. Welcome to the You Are Not So

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Episode 3.39.

3.9.

3.9. I'm David McCraney. This is the You're Not So Smart podcast.

And I just got back from one of the most rewarding and

challenging and fascinating experiences I've had as a science journalist who is deeply invested

in a better understanding of disagreement, arguing, deliberation, how that happens in the brain,

between brains, in cultures.

If you've listened to this show for a while, you know there are a lot of people who study

that sort of thing scientifically. We've had them on the show. We've talked to them. And there

are organizations out there devoted to improving discourse in the modern era. There are organizations out there devoted to improving discourse in the modern era.

There are organizations out there devoted to funding and coordinating research in this domain.

And there are organizations that are devoted to creating a system of lessons and programs and even games

that hopefully could enter K through 12 education, college education, to do all of the above.

I just spent a few weeks working with an organization doing all of that,

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