December 6, 2017 • 30m
Would you reroute a train to run over one person to prevent it from running over five others? In the classic “Trolley Problem” sur...Read more
December 6, 2017 • 30m
Do psychedelic drugs really bring about self-healing and personal enlightenment? New research says they may. In this episode, I ...Read more
December 6, 2017 • 30m
Psychology. Neuroscience. Drugs. All can be tools of interrogation. In this episode, an expert shows me how to coerce unsuspec...Read more
December 6, 2017 • 30m
Technology isn’t just changing our lives. It’s literally changing our brains -- and maybe for the better. In this episode, I’m a...Read more
December 13, 2017 • 30m
What makes a hero? Dr. Philip Zimbardo, the psychologist behind the infamous Stanford Prison Experiment, now runs seminars to teac...Read more
December 20, 2017 • 30m
Exactly how do placebos work? Researchers believe that, through the power of suggestion, placebos may unleash the power of our ow...Read more
December 27, 2017 • 30m
Scientists can’t dissect living people’s brains to study their function. But by examining the behavior of people whose brains are ...Read more
January 3, 2018 • 30m
Our nervous system is fundamentally electric. We move our arm by sending a signal to the muscles that control it. That means we ca...Read more