Episode 2 - Nature vs. Nurture

Clock in, because this week’s episode is all about coworker drama. The girls jump right into your submissions, with nurses getting on each other’s nerves, one man getting caught (again!?) drinking breast milk, and some tyrannical teacher’s assistant deciding they’re suddenly in c ...  Show more

The What We Said girls are March-ing into another month’s advice column, and your submissions delivered! They kick things off with a rogue husband confiding in a Valley girl’s best friend, unpack an awkward situation involving an ex-relationship step cousin, and share some helpfu ...  Show more

Nancy Segal is a professor at California State University, an author and one of the most prominent twin-study researchers on the planet. What makes you the person you are? Is it your genetics or your environment? When twins are either accidentally or purposefully separated at bir ...  Show more

Twin studies aren't just for twins. They're a paradigm for all of us, a way to explore an old question: how much are we shaped by our genes, and how much by our environment?

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Twins are used to fielding all sorts of questions, like "Can you read each other's minds?" or "Can you feel each other's pain?" Two of our Planet Money reporters are twins, and they have heard them all.But it's not just strangers on the street who are fascinated by twins. Scienti ...  Show more

There are siblings, and then there are twins!No one understands that special dynamic better than identical brothers Benji and Joel Madden.They may share the same chromosomes, but in this conversation we explore their differences too. The musicians tell us about moving cross count ...  Show more