Brain
The benefits of flexible thinking. BBC Ideas. Video, 00:04:12
BBC Ideas explores how thinking flexibly helps you cope better with life's challenges.
- AttributionBBC
- Posted4 March 2021
Does a full moon increase abnormal behaviour? Video, 00:05:02
Does a full moon increase abnormal behaviour?
- AttributionBBC
- Posted15 February 2021
Can you boost your brain power naturally? Video, 00:07:15
How do so-called 'smart drugs' work, and what are their risks?
- AttributionBBC
- Posted4 February 2021
The Infinite Monkey Cage. Series 22, The Human Brain. Audio, 28 minutes
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Conan O'Brien to look at the amazing human brain.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Can you really have a photographic memory? Video, 00:03:31
Is there really a way to remember visual snapshots from life just like a mental scrapbook?
- AttributionBBC
- Posted1 February 2021
Archive on 4. Easier Than Curing a Toothache? The Story of Lobotomy. Audio, 57 minutes
Claire Prentice looks at the history of a notorious medical procedure - lobotomy.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Between Life and Death. Video, 51 minutes
Provocative documentary following the doctors who can now interrupt the death process.
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted21 January 2021
5 Live Science Podcast. Speeding Up Covid Testing, Predicting Who Gets 'Long Covid', and How Video Games Change How You Think. Audio, 56 minutes
Chris Berrow from the Naked Scientists rounds up the latest science news.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
Curious Cases. Rutherford and Fry, The Noises That Make Us Cringe. Audio, 48 minutes
Why do some people find noises like a fork scraping a plate so terrible?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
CrowdScience. Was I born clumsy? Audio, 36 minutes
Simon is sick of knocking stuff over, so CrowdScience looks at the science of clumsiness
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted1 November 2020
Discovery. Anatomy Of Touch, Affectionate touch. Audio, 27 minutes
How we experience gentle touch
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted29 August 2020
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- Posted28 August 2020
The Compass. The Senses, The senses: Synaesthesia: When senses merge. Audio, 27 minutes
Synaesthesia: We meet the man whose sister tastes of blackcurrant yoghurt
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Compass. The Senses, The senses: Smell and taste. Audio, 27 minutes
‘Everything smelled of rotting flesh, even perfume’: What happens when smell goes wrong?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted16 August 2020
The Compass. The Senses, The senses: Hearing. Audio, 27 minutes
‘I could hear my eyeballs moving’: How rogue messages pass between our ears and brain
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
The Compass. The Senses, The senses: Vision. Audio, 27 minutes
How glitches between our eyes and brain cause bewildering, even terrifying, images.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
5 Live Science Podcast. Journey to the centre of the Earth. Audio, 54 minutes
Science news, plus a special journey to the centre of the Earth.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
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- Posted17 June 2020
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- Posted13 June 2020
