Neuroscience
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- Posted1 September 2020
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Why is it so much easier to choose doughnuts over broccoli? BBC Ideas. Video, 00:04:50
BBC Ideas looks at why your brain chooses one food over another
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- Posted20 July 2020
Why metaphors are more powerful than you think. BBC Ideas. Video, 00:03:36
BBC Ideas explores how metaphors shape how we see the world
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- Posted6 August 2020
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- Posted28 July 2020
Why is it so much easier to choose doughnuts over broccoli? BBC Ideas. Video, 00:04:50
BBC Ideas looks at why your brain chooses one food over another
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- Posted20 July 2020
Rethink. V.S Ramachandran: Rethinking Brains. Audio, 8 minutes
Neurologist Ramachandran asks how the pandemic has changed how we think about ourselves.
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Health Check. Pain and the brain. Audio, 27 minutes
New understanding about pain
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Blind Mind's Eye. Audio, 28 minutes
Sue Armstrong hears the personal experience of people with aphantasia - no mind's eye.
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Discovery. Adrian Owen. Audio, 27 minutes
Adrian Owen tells Jim Al-Khalili about his search for awareness in brain-injured patients.
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The Life Scientific. Anya Hurlbert on seeing colour. Audio, 28 minutes
Anya Hurlbert tells Jim Al-Khalili how colours are made in the mind.
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Witness History. How meditation changes your brain. Audio, 9 minutes
In 2002, a landmark study on Buddhist monks showed that meditation can alter the brain.
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- Posted15 February 2020
Science In Action. Australia’s extreme fire season. Audio, 27 minutes
2019 was Australia’s hottest year on record, a major factor behind the continued bushfires
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Fidget on Four. Audio, 28 minutes
Dr Kat Arney examines the potential health benefits of jiggling and doodling.
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Don’t Tell Me The Score. Walking: Professor Shane O'Mara. Audio, 55 minutes
How walking more will boost your brain, body and creativity with professor Shane O'Mara
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Witness History. The 'Awakenings' medical experiment. Audio, 9 minutes
In the 1960s a new drug briefly woke up patients who'd been catatonic for decades.
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Desert Island Discs. Professor Russell Foster, professor of circadian neuroscience. Audio, 42 minutes
Professor Russell Foster shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne
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Boys' toys. Girls' toys. Should toys just be toys? BBC Ideas. Video, 00:05:25
Sparkles for girls. Diggers for boys. Should toys just be toys?
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- Posted4 December 2019
Curious Cases. Series 14, The Heart of the Antimatter. Audio, 32 minutes
How do you make antimatter? Science sleuths Drs Rutherford and Fry investigate.
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The Life Scientific. Elizabeth Fisher on chromosomes in mice and men. Audio, 28 minutes
Elizabeth Fisher on studying chromosomal abnormalities in mice and men
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CrowdScience. Can my stutter be cured? Audio, 34 minutes
Most of us take speaking for granted, but for Breeda it has been a lifelong struggle
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The Why Factor. Why are we conscious of so little? Audio, 24 minutes
Why are humans conscious of so little of what goes on around us?
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