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Unexplainable

Is telepathy real?

Unexplainable

Vox

Life Sciences, Science, Natural Sciences

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

A groundbreaking study claims to have found a way for a fully paralyzed person to communicate entirely via thought. Today, Explained breaks down the science and asks: Is it too good to be true? For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! [email protected] We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and

0:07.8

justice produced with Fox Creative.

0:11.1

Florida School teacher Andrea Phillips always loved her job, and she spent years collecting

0:16.2

hundreds of books to help struggling readers discover new possibilities.

0:21.0

But then her district informed her and her colleagues that their classroom libraries were

0:25.2

off limits until every book was approved, all because of an intentionally vague new law.

0:31.6

Hear her story on the latest episode of Into the Mix, subscribe now.

0:55.9

It's unexplainable, I'm no, I'm hasn't felt sci-fi movies have predicted we'd build all sorts

1:07.7

of futuristic tech by now, flying cars, hoverboards, time machines, and so far it doesn't look

1:15.0

like we're anywhere near actually making them.

1:18.6

But we might be closer than you think to figuring out telepathy.

1:22.7

Our friends over at today explained recently made a great episode on the latest telepathic

1:27.0

tech.

1:28.0

They get into how excited or skeptical we should be, and we wanted to share it with you

1:33.0

this week.

1:34.0

Here's one of the hosts of the show, Sean Ramasparam.

1:38.0

What you're hearing right now is a German guy asking his wife to go get a mixer to puree

1:49.5

some soup for him.

1:52.9

The reason it sounds kind of funky is because he's asking her using only his thoughts.

1:58.9

You're hearing real-time activity, brain activity, that this person now has to sort of actively

2:04.8

shape, actively modulate through his own mind.

2:09.4

A totally paralyzed person asked his wife to puree some soup using only his thoughts.

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