Braincast 013 - Free will

The ship of free will is sinking – at least some influential brain researchers say so. Braincast 13 examines backgrounds and backdoors of one of the most controversial topics between our ears.

MP3 File Duration 17:01

This is just great: Woody Allan about his psychotherapy.

NEWS

• Automatic Mental Associations Predict Future Choices of Undecided Decision-Makers -- $
  
• Experienced drivers perceive the road differently
  
• The Stone-Age Mind in an Information-Age Situation
  
• Oldsters' New Fountain of Youth: Video Games
  
• Children learn rules of equality by age eight
  
• How to Disown a Body Part
  
• Why you should go with your gut feeling
  
• Wilder Penfield, Neural Cartographer, via Mind Hacks
  
• Look Closely, Doctor: See the Camera?
  
• Subconscious Decisions: Voting in Churches and Buying Designer Labels
  
• The Mind of the Market
  
• Why the world is a happier place
  

SHOWNOTES
It´s a pity to talk over this song: Alexander Blu and Concert. Very nice in beat and music as well is Coming Clean by Milo Firewater. We end with Trauma on the Dancefloor by Briareus – on a nearly optimistic note.

Braincast 012 - Best before

For decades they told us our brains were doomed, its cells vanish and we would become more dense every day. This is not invariably the case. That and more good news in a Braincast about the date of expiry.



MP3 File Duration: 16:00

As promised you´ll find those interesting rat brain robots here.

NEWS

• How recycling could keep your organs young
  
• You’re Bored, but Your Brain Is Tuned In
  
• Cannibalism & the shaking death: A new form of the disease & a possible epidemic
  
• A New State of Mind
  
• Are Running Shoes the Fountain of Youth?
  
• Are Running Shoes the Fountain of Youth?
  
• Why real and imagined disgust have the same effect
• 'Beer goggles' are real - it's official
  
• Being your own therapist - Buddhist style
  
• The Danger of Stress
  
• Dear World: What kind of a person blogs?
  
• Confidence game
  
• Environmental cues affect how much you eat
  
• The Magpie in the Mirror
  
• DOPAMINE FENDS OFF ZZZZZ’S
  
• Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain
  
• The Face of Aggression
  
• Elephants master basic mathematics - with Video
  
• Undecided? Don't Be so Sure.
  
• Smells Like Danger
  

SHOWNOTES
We start nice and smooth with another great song from Deep Sea Dust: Lazy finger, continue with a little Jazz and Hyperion by Deerfoot and finish – for the higher note and to pacify those Jazz-Rock-haters among you – with the great piano of Jon Schmidt and All of me.

Braincast 011 - Basics: Structures

Limbic system, amygdala or neocortex – what does that actually mean? In Braincast 11 we are talking structure and layout of the brain. It might be a little dry. But it is imporatant.

MP3 File Duration: 16:12

One last time I´ll take two weeks off, but I leave you this great series of lectures of
Columbia University

NEWS

• Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain
  
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Thinking about Morality
  
• Pathogens and Prayer
  
• To Sleep, Perchance to Forget
  
• Men do everything they do in order to get laid
  
• Why we think we're better than the rest - it's not all vanity
  
• Attention and awareness in stage magic: turning tricks into research
  
• Decision Making in the Brain: Eavesdropping on Neurons
  
• The Nose, an Emotional Time Machine
  
• Madness: Price of a Big Brain?
  
• Folklore gets it wrong on love matches
  
• Paralysed by humour? Don't make me laugh
  
• Eat less, weigh more
  
• Behavioral therapy can reverse chronic fatigue syndrome and increase prefrontal volume
  
• Mind games reveal people who are 'blind' to trust
  

SHOWNOTES
This episdode´s soundtrack starts with Christophe Goze and Breathing – beautiful as always. The second, rather quite title is David by Gary. Last, an easy listenig piece: Just Gone by Electrix.