Optical Illusions as Prediction: Changizi's Neural Lag and the Hollow Face
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The room around you feels like raw reality, but this episode argues it is an edited, slightly de...
3 Loka 24min
Why We Dream: Gudea's Temple Order, Calvin Hall's 50,000 Reports and fMRI
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The average person spends about two hours a night dreaming, adding up to five or six years of li...
3 Loka 26min
Hypnic Jerks: The Falling Sensation, Tree-Sleeping Primates and EEG Clues
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Just as you drift off, your whole body jolts and you feel yourself fall. Sleep medicine calls th...
3 Loka 18min
Everest's Death Zone: Thin Air, Fetal Hemoglobin and Messner's 1978 Climb
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!At the summit of Mount Everest, 29,032 feet up, the air holds the same 20.9 percent oxygen as at...
3 Loka 22min
Yanny or Laurel: How a 2007 Dictionary Recording Split the Internet in 2018
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 2018 a one second audio clip divided the internet: in a Twitter poll of more than 500,000...
3 Loka 24min
Yawning Science: Gallup's Cold Pack Test, Paratroopers and Penguin Love
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Bored office workers yawn, and so do paratroopers seconds before they jump. This episode explore...
3 Loka 22min
Tip of the Tongue States: Brown and McNeill's 1966 Test and Lorazepam
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!That maddening moment when a word you know refuses to come out has a clinical name, lethologica,...
3 Loka 19min
Wisdom Teeth: A 13,000-Year-Old Impaction, Shrinking Jaws and PRF Plugs
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belongs to a Magdalenian woman who lived in Ice Age Europ...
3 Loka 23min
