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What It’s Like to Be…a Mail Carrier

Loading the mail truck before the day begins, dealing with aggressive dogs and bad weather, and keeping a neighborhood connected by showing up every day with John Ayala, a retired mail carrier in Los Angeles.

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What It’s Like to Be…a Hotshot

Digging line to redirect the country’s fiercest wildland fires, sleeping in the dirt after a 16-hour day, and turning physical endurance into a public service with Ben Strahan, a hotshot crew superintendent in California.

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Journey to Robbers Cave

On the heels of WWII, a team of psychologists set out to solve global conflict. Their lab? Boys summer camps. Their goal? Set the 11- and 12-year-old boys against one another to discover what, if anything, could restore peace. The result? One of psychology’s most enduring and controversial experiments.

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Frontiers: A Roundtable Discussion on the I-Frame vs. S-Frame Debate

Applied behavioral scientists believe their work can influence people’s lives for the better. But what is the most effective way to make that happen? 

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View the I-Frame vs. S-Frame Roundtable Discussion

Watch the roundtable discussion on the i-frame vs. s-frame debate, share your perspective, and five questions to consider.

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