Mind Field (2017)

Humans are the only Earthlings with complex language. But at what cost was that ability acquired? In this episode, Michael Stevens visit Te…

How are our moral decisions influenced by factors we’re not aware of? A phenomenon known as Moral Licensing claims that when we do somethin…

There are 100 billion individual neurons in the human brain. Working together, they allow us to make sense of, and move through, the world…

Normal people can become monsters, given the right situation. That’s the standard narrative of the Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the m…

If I could live forever, should I? How does being reminded of our own mortality affect us psychologically? In this episode I speak with mor…

Are we alone in the universe? Even if we could contact aliens, what would we say? How would we say it? And, most importantly, should we eve…

How can a lie become true? In this episode, Dr. Aaron Blaisdell and I create a game show that is actually a giant "human Skinner Box" to ob…

In this episode I visit a researcher who is studying memory by using machine learning and neuroimaging to detect and predict people's brain…