Ep37 "What is Insanity?" Part 2
What does the insanity defense mean in a court of law? And is there such a thing as temporary insanity? Is the twinkie defense a real thing? Can someone use premenstrual syndrome as a defense? And wha...
4 Dec 202339min
Inner Cosmos Inbox 2
Eagleman answers listeners questions.
30 Nov 202311min
Ep36 "What is Insanity?" Part 1
What is the insanity defense? Are some people’s brains so different that it makes sense to use a different legal category? How does a legal system decide where the dividing line is? How are science an...
27 Nov 202339min
Ep35 "What sticks in your brain and what doesn’t? "
f you look at a brain, how can you immediately tell if it belongs to a piano player or a violinist? How can a dog learn how to walk on its rear legs? And what does this have to do with expertise, or t...
20 Nov 202358min
Ep34 "What is intelligence?"
What would it be like to have a much lower or higher IQ than you currently have -- for example, to be a squirrel or an advanced space alien? This week's episode is about intelligence. What is it and w...
13 Nov 202354min
Ep33 "Why do they start sprinters with a bang instead of a flash?"
Why do they use a gun at the Olympics? And why can you get off the blocks after the bang but still be disqualified for jumping the gun? Few things are as bizarre as our time perception. From sprinters...
6 Nov 202342min
Ep32 "Is death reversible?"
Does life end inevitably or instead only because we don’t understand biology well enough yet? Today’s episode is about understanding what happens when your molecular cycles grind to a halt... and whet...
30 Okt 202347min
Inner Cosmos Inbox 1
Eagleman answers listeners questions.
25 Okt 202310min
