Lauren Hansen

Executive editor of multimedia

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.

A man eating a bagel and listening to podcasts

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This week I learned sound can change the taste of food, and more

Really, who doesn't immediately associate calamari with Rhode Island?

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America's 13 most bizarrely specific official state appetizers, toys, soils, and more

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2013: The Year in Review

The most newsworthy dogs of 2013

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The surprisingly endearing world of pigeon racing

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The objects immigrants hold dear

Times Square in New York City on January 1, 2012.

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Cleaning up the biggest New Year's mess in America

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The year's best photojournalism

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The most wondrous space photography of 2017

The 'Peak Walk' suspension bridge in Switzerland.

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The week's best photojournalism

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This week I learned that crows make up after fights, and more

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The week I learned your ice is teeming with bacteria, and more

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The week's best photojournalism

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The women warriors of photojournalism

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This week I learned dogs really are smarter than cats, and more

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The universal beauty of family

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This week I learned that prehistoric women were ridiculously strong, and more

A child works in a mustard field in India.

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The week's best photojournalism

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Finally some good news

Woman thanks homeless man who saved her with a $200,000 crowdfunding campaign

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This week I learned America really struggled to pin down a date for Thanksgiving, and more

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Oof

Rep. Joe Barton caught on tape threatening ex-lover with the police to protect his secret sex life

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Transfer of power

Zimbabwe will officially have a new president on Friday

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Skyping it in

Trump offers troops Thanksgiving message via video chat

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The weird and wonderful world of poultry pageants

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This week I learned the dinosaurs could still be alive today if the asteroid had hit pretty much anywhere else, and more

From the book, 'Peace: Photography by Jim Marshall.'

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The origin story of the peace sign

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This week I learned that dogs can smell happiness, and more

The inauguration of President Donald Trump.

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The year of Trump, in photos

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texas church shooting

Texas Attorney General calls for more conceal carry laws in the wake of deadly church shooting

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The week's best photojournalism

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This week I learned plants can smell predators coming, and more

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The locked doors of dementia

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The week's best photojournalism

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This week I learned that salmon sex literally moves mountains, and more

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The week's best photojournalism

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This week I learned worms can smell danger, and more

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America the polluted