Ep23 "How can we learn to speak alien?"
If we meet extraterrestrials someday, how will we figure out what they're saying? We currently face this problem right here at home: we have 2 million species of animals on our planet... and we have n...
28 Aug 20231h 1min
Ep22 "What do we find beautiful?"
Why do briefly glimpsed people appear to be more attractive? Why did portrait photographers put Vaseline on their lenses, and what does that have to do with Instagram filters? Why are thirsty people m...
21 Aug 202346min
Ep21 "How far would you follow authority?"
Would you torture someone if you were commanded by an authority figure? To what degree are your decisions contextual, and what does this have to do with matching the length of a line, the Iroquois Nat...
14 Aug 202338min
Ep20 "Why does your brain care more about some people than others?"
Why do we so naturally form ingroups and outgroups? And what does that have to do with evolution, monkeys, Greeks, psychopaths, Syndrome E, and propaganda posters? Join Eagleman to learn why our brain...
7 Aug 202338min
Ep19 "How far can you trust your memory?"
How good is your memory, really? Why do we feel so certain about our memory, even while it is so suspect? Can something told to you after an event change your memory of the event? Why is it so hard to...
31 Jul 202344min
Ep18 "Could you upload your brain to live forever?"
How would we know if we were living in a simulation? What if you were a butterfly having a dream it was a human? What does any of this have to do with John Lennon, or Renee Descartes, or freezing your...
24 Jul 202338min
Ep17 "What is consciousness?"
How do your billions of tiny brain cells build consciousness as they chatter away with electrical spikes and chemical signals? And why is your laptop, with its sophisticated algorithms and billions of...
17 Jul 202341min
Ep16 "Why is everyone who disagrees with you misinformed?"
Why is there so much polarization, and what does this have to do with neuroscience? Why do people on all sides of the political spectrum feel that if they could shout loudly enough in all caps on Twit...
10 Jul 20231h 1min
