044 - Inbetweenisode - James Burke And Matt Novak (Rebroadcast)
This episode is a rebroadcast of two interviews from episode 20 all about how we are very, very bad at predicting the future both in our personal lives and as as a species. The first interview is with...
25 Feb 201543min
043 - Misremembering - Julia Shaw and Dan Simons
Did Brian Williams lie, exaggerate, or misremember? How certain are you that your most vivid memories are real? How easily could someone implant a false memory into your mind? In this episode you'll l...
11 Feb 20151h 9min
042 - Bodily Resonance - Lara Maister
Scientists are using rubber hands and virtual reality to transfer people's minds into avatars designed to look like members of groups and subcultures to which the subjects do not belong, and the resul...
28 Jan 201550min
041 - Inbetweenisode - The Game/Ceiling Crasher
In this episode, two stories, one about a football game that split reality in two for the people who witnessed it, and another about what happened when a naked man literally appeared out of thin air i...
15 Jan 201532min
040 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos
How far back can we trace our irrational behaviors and cognitive biases? Evolutionarily speaking, why do we even do these things? Can we blame our faulty logic on our cultures and institutions, or sho...
6 Jan 20151h 9min
039 - Blind Insight - Ryan Scott
Is it possible to for different parts of your mind to learn how the world works at different rates? Is it possible that the unconscious part of you can know something long before the conscious you rea...
17 Des 20141h 7min
038 - Inbetweenisode - The Halo Effect
One salient trait can cause you to misjudge every other trait when evaluating a new hire, a love interest, a colleague, or even a potential purchase. Learn more about the power of the halo effect in t...
9 Des 20142h 43min
037 - Motivation - Daniel Pink
What motivates you to keep going, to reach for your dreams, to persist and endure? Psychology has, over the last 40 years, learned a great deal about human motivation and drive. In this episode we ask...
23 Nov 20141h 14min
