Braincast 021 - Basics: Senses

In dealing with reality the brain might be quite creative, but the senses are not: They send in the real world, one gig of data per second. This and other impressive numbers in Braincast 21. Plus: seeing with the tongue.

MP3 File Duration: 16:23

NEWS

• Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly Wicked
  
• How parasites spread religion
  
• Primate researchers ask the big questions
  
• Molecular Motor Tied to Memory
  
• Is cannabis being doped with Viagra?
  
• Why Do We Forget Things?
  
• Can animals escape the present?
  
• Suffering Souls, via MindHacks 
  
• The Science of Gossip: Why We Can't Stop Ourselves
  
• Is mirror neuron activity just a mirage?
  
• Rare, profound positive events won't make you happy, but lots of little ones will
  
• The Maverickiness Paradox
  
• Getting Hooked on Sin
  
• Itch
  
• Connectomics - Tracing the Wires of the Brain
  
• Mom and Dad Are Fighting in Your Genes—and in Your Brain
  
• Mirror Neurons
  
• Undoing cocaine's consequences
  
• How warfare shaped human evolution
  

SHOWNOTES
We start nice and easy with Hack & Tear from Doubleplay & La Bella, continue likewise with Dave Percell and Eternal Traveler and end quite and beautiful on Berwick Road by the Dave Lambert Band.