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027 - Science Communication - Joe Hanson
I recently collaborated with Joe Hanson of the YouTube channel It’s Okay to be Smart and helped him write an episode about pattern recognition. I tho…
11 years, 10 months ago
026 - Maslow's Hammer
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.” You’ve heard the expression before. You’…
11 years, 10 months ago
025 - Enclothed Cognition - Hajo Adam
The clothes you wear have powers...over your mind. Your wardrobe doesn't just affect the way others see you, but it affects the way you see yourself.…
11 years, 11 months ago
024 - Sleep - Richard Wiseman
Why do we sleep and why do we dream? Despite the fact that every human being spends roughly 1/3 of his or her life asleep, science has yet to crack t…
11 years, 11 months ago
023 - Inbetweenisode 4 - The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight
In the 1950s, in an effort to better understand group conflict, a team of psychologists nearly turned a summer camp into Lord of The Flies.
The stor…
12 years ago
022 - Survivorship Bias - Megan Price
The problem with sorting out failures and successes is that failures are often muted, destroyed, or somehow removed from view while successes are lef…
12 years ago
021 - Inbetweenisode 3 - Christina Draganich
In this inbetweenisode, Christina Draganich explains how she came up with the idea to research placebo sleep, and she tells us how anyone with the ri…
12 years, 1 month ago
020 - The Future - James Burke and Matt Novak
If you love educational entertainment – programs about science, nature, history, technology and everything in between – it is a safe bet that the cre…
12 years, 1 month ago
019 - The Placebo Effect - Kristi Erdal
How powerful is the placebo effect? After a good night’s sleep could a scientist convince you that you had tossed and turned, and if so, how would th…
12 years, 2 months ago
018 - Inbetweenisode - The Benjamin Franklin Effect
Benjamin Franklin knew how to deal with haters, and in this episode we learn how he turned his haters into fans with what is now called The Benjamin …
12 years, 2 months ago