Shankar Vedantam
Journalist and science correspondent
Shankar Vedantam is an American journalist best known for Hidden Brain, which spans a book, a podcast and a radio program.
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About Shankar Vedantam
Shankar Vedantam is an American journalist and writer whose reporting centers on human behavior and the social sciences. He worked as a national correspondent and columnist at the Washington Post, where he wrote a column called Department of Human Behavior from 2006 to 2009. He was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2010. He hosts the Hidden Brain podcast and public radio show. He also wrote the book The Hidden Brain, which was a New York Times national bestseller.