Episode 292 - Ori Amir

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Neuroscientist/comedian Ori Amir (@OriAmir) joins Matt and Andy to talk about putting Matt in an fMRI, how your brain constructs jokes, prosopagnosia and aphantasia, politics and the brain, what computers find easy and hard, AI and game-solving, and more about Uber's bad driving.

Plus, fill out this survey and we might go on a cruise together!

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to Probably Science. I'm Matt Kirshin. There's Andy Wood.
0:14.4	Hello, hello. Hey, we've got a fun. We've got a neuroscience episode for you today.
0:18.7	Finally.
0:19.4	I know. It's been a while. It's been a while.
0:22.9	I think there's going to be a fair bit of neuroscience coming up.
0:24.6	A little teaser there.
0:30.0	But before we get into the guest, just a quick announcement, a plug, if you will.
0:38.7	I know a fair few listeners have found our show through StarTalk, because I've got to appear on it a couple of times.
0:43.6	And they are possibly going to have a cruise.
0:44.5	Awesome.
0:45.3	Yeah.
0:46.5	So the stars?
0:48.9	A cruise literally to the stars.
0:52.4	A cruise to the star or near the stars or within sight of the stars.
0:56.7	And so they're investigating the possibility doing a cruise.
1:02.2	It'll be one of those themed cruises, except instead of Weezer, it'll be Neil deGrasse Tyson and assorted scientists and comedians.
1:04.7	And 311.
1:05.6	And 3.
1:06.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:06.4	They'll still be there, of course.
1:08.2	So they're gauging interest. They're gauging interest. If this is
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