Fighting Bias With Board Games

The game Buffalo prompts players to think of people that buck stereotypes, and subliminally challenges those stereotypes in the process

Maanvi Singh for NPR

Quick, think of a physicist.

If you’re anything like me, you probably didn’t have to think very hard before the names Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton popped up.

But what if I asked you to think of a female physicist? What about a black, female physicist?