Hay Festival
BBC Inside Science
BBC
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Adam Rutherford and his guests at the Hay Festival, neurologist Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan, acoustic engineer Professor Trevor Cox and science writer Dr Philip Ball discuss what scientists learn when things go wrong. Suzanne O'Sullivan, author of Brainstorm, talks about how she helps her patients with strange and unusual forms of epilepsy; Trevor Cox, whose new book is called Now You're Talking, describes cases where our voices change, such as stammering and foreign language syndrome; and Philip Ball, who is part of Created out of Mind, a Wellcome funded project about dementia and the arts, explores what happens when our brains age.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Doleepa, and I'm at your service. |
| 0:04.7 | Join me as I serve up personal conversations with my sensational guests. |
| 0:08.8 | Do a leap interviews, Tim Cook. |
| 0:11.2 | Technology doesn't want to be good or bad. |
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| 0:16.7 | It's not every day that I have the CEO of the world's biggest company in my living room. |
| 0:20.7 | If you're looking at your phone more than you're looking in someone's eyes, you're doing the wrong thing. |
| 0:26.0 | Julie, at your service. |
| 0:28.0 | Listen to all episodes on BBC sales. |
| 0:31.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello and welcome to Inside Science at the Hay Festival. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we're really concentrating on getting stuff wrong. |
| 0:41.0 | We often tend to focus on what science gets right, positive results, and we sometimes |
| 0:45.5 | neglect the fact that errors, mistakes, malfunctions, these are the cornerstones of understanding |
| 0:51.3 | how things work when they go right. |
| 0:53.8 | What can we learn about our brains and minds |
| 0:56.1 | from the cases where it all goes wrong |
| 0:58.0 | and we exhibit strange behaviors? |
| 1:00.3 | Now, this is one of the mainstays |
| 1:02.0 | for psychologists and neuroscientists to understand normal behavior from abnormal behavior. |
| 1:07.0 | My guests, Suzanne O'Sullivan is a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at the National Hospital for |
| 1:13.7 | neurology and neurosurgery and she's also in a specialist unit based at the |
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