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	Podcast:		TED Talks Daily (HD video)
	Episode:		How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain \| Kashfia Rahman
	Category:		Education
	Duration:		00:11:39
	Publish Date:		2019-04-11 10:00:09
	Description:		Why do teenagers sometimes make outrageous, risky choices? Do they suddenly become reckless, or are they just going through a natural phase? To find out, Kashfia Rahman -- winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (and a Harvard freshman) -- designed and conducted an experiment to test how high school students respond to and get used to risk, and how it changes their still-developing brains. What she discovered about risk and decision-making could change how we think about why teens do what they do.
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