The Memory Palace Revisited (with Nelson Dellis)
Stroll into the memory palace, an imagined location that just might expand your brain power. In this classic episode you'll learn all about the Method of Loci, a mnemonic device that allows mental ath...
25 Juni 201535min
Escape from Universe 25
Explore Universe 25, a 101-square-inch tank designed as a utopia for mice and a mirror of human behavior. Every detail of the structure was crafted with comfort in mind: a never-ending supply of food;...
23 Juni 201534min
Detective Story
Everyone loves a good whodunit, but why does the figure of the fictional detective tower so staggeringly over the modern world? He or she is a seeker of truth, a resolver of conflict, a subcultural li...
18 Juni 20151h 2min
Supernormal Stimuli
No longer limited by the constrains of their environment or biology, humans have remade their world. Why walk when you can soar? Why shout when you can whisper in the ear of a listener halfway round t...
16 Juni 201533min
Techno-Religion for the Masses: Part 2
We often think of technology and religion as distinct and separate worlds, but what happens when they converge? Join Robert and Joe in this two-part episode as they examine religious world views shape...
11 Juni 201553min
Techno-Religion for the Masses: Part 1
We often think of technology and religion as distinct and separate worlds, but what happens when they converge? Join Robert and Joe in this two-part episode as they examine religious world views shape...
9 Juni 201543min
Mass Extinction: Earth's Cycle of Annihilation
Five mass extinction events have ravaged the species of Earth, and we just might be living in the sixth. How can humanity survive the threat of cosmic calamity and its own tireless work to unbalance t...
4 Juni 201558min
Heartbeat in the Brain, Hole in the Skull
Trepanation is an ancient surgical procedure and we've found the millennia-aged skulls to prove it - each punctured and gouged to relieve inner-pressure and inner-madness. But is such cranial perforat...
2 Juni 201532min
