Braincast 019 - Stress

Stress is not just stress – it was designed to safe our life. But nowadays we even have stress with stress, and this is just sassy. In this episode you find some inner-headly backgrounds. And even some good news.

MP3 File Duration: 16:36

NEWS

• Searching for Intelligence in Our Genes
  
• Are Antidepressant Drugs Actually Worth Taking?
  
• Loving bonobos have a carnivorous dark side
  
• Why Schizophrenics Smoke
  
• Vitamin D Deficiency
  
• Monkeys move paralysed muscles with their minds
  
• Man 'roused from coma' by a magnetic field
  
• Grieving voles hint at why human relationships last
  
• Never gamble with an autistic opponent
  
• When thoughts of death turn to environmentalism
  
• Time to wake up to the facts about sleep
  
• Bacteria that do logic
  
• Redefining Depression as Mere Sadness
  
• Self-belief boosts problem solving success
  
• Creationists declare war over the brain
  
• Warm Hands, Warm Hearts
  
• Fear, Death and Politics: What Your Mortality Has to Do with the Upcoming Election
  

SHOWNOTES
Fast forward and Blazej Lindner is jazzy and the title fits nicely. But before you start feeling to comfortable, we put you on the back seet of Baja Taxi of Brain Bucket. And why stop there – we end with the mean guitar of Danny Weis´Gunslinger.

Braincast 018 - The underestimated animal kingdom

Man is the pinnacle of creation and shall rule the world – that´s how we like it to be. But the difference between us and those brute animals is not that big, as this braincast demonstrates.

MP3 File Duration: 15:16

NEWS

• This Is Getting Out of Control
  
• Do we all have some synaesthetic ability?
  
• Crick was right about 'vision filter' in the brain
  
• Maths helps bees read the waggle dance
  
• Web content contributors seek attention not altruism
  
• Hypnosis, Memory and the Brain
  
• Hypnosis, Memory and the Brain
  
• Some coma patients 'feel pain'
  
• The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw
  

SHOWNOTES
Smart animals and some smoothing instrumentals – starting with Milo Firewater and Simple. Because it is not. Then I found this wonderful music of Dan Tharp – here with Beth. Very autumn! Another discovery is Danny Weis here with It's About Time!.

Braincast 017 - The world out there

It the world out there would exist without us noticing, has been a heavy disput between philosophers for centuries. With "neurological constructivism", neuroscience found a position that offers great possibilities.

MP3 File Duration: 16:37

Apposite to our topic here the link to the ongoing Visual Illusion-Contests.

NEWS

• Seeing double with Eli Lilly's antidepressant: 
  
• Practice, practice, practice ... the benefits are ongoing
  
• In the language of love, money talks
• Why Calories Taste Delicious: Eating and the Brain
  
• Cochlear Implants
  
• What is it about eye wiggling that helps people recover from trauma?
  
• Bad boys can blame behaviour on their hormones
  
• 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Genius
  
• Neuropod, episode 9/08
  
• Market Mess? Blame Your Brain
  

SHOWNOTES
Outside the leaves starting to fall. But that just the world outside – I decided to have on last summerday, a complete podsafe one. We start with Summerfeeling by Dreamweaver - instrumental. Next the first Reggae in Braincast: Time by David R Merry – after all these years. We close with La Cadence by easyflow! and the rather short – too short, I think – Rio by Brian Kelly.