Life of Brain

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We should award frequent travel miles to your brain. After all, it’s evolved a long way from the days of guiding brachiation from tree-to-tree to become the three pounds of web-surfing, Sudoku-playing powerhouse it is today. But a suite of technologies may expand human brains further still. From smart pills to nano-wires: discover the potential – and peril – of neuro-engineering to repair and enhance our cognitive function. Also, how our brains got so big in the first place: a defense of the modern diet. Guests Bill Leonard - department chairman and professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University Michael Gazzaniga - neuroscientist and director of the University of California – Santa Barbara’s SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind. Author of Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique Ian Pearson - futurologist at Futurizon Steven Rose - biologist and director of the Brain and Behavior Research Group at the Open University in London. Author of The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience Ed Boyden - neuroscientist at MIT’s Media Lab and Department of Biological Engineering Descripción en español Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an airwave media podcast.
0:05.0	McDonald's are making small improvements to our classic burgers,
0:08.0	searing our 100% British and Irish beef parties,
0:10.0	so they're even juicier.
0:12.0	And we're serving them hotter for meltier cheese, all in new
0:15.4	toastier buns. The classics, now a little more mmm. comparison with prior classic burgers,
0:20.4	serves after 11 a.m. subject to availability.
0:22.4	Mm-hmm-hmm.
0:24.0	The world is filled with many questions, such as, did giants exist?
0:28.0	What is junk DNA?
0:30.0	Does it mean that you're trash?
0:32.0	Do you ever wonder if aliens have underwater bases in our oceans and that's why there are so many
0:36.9	UFO sightings off the coast of islands all over the world?
0:40.8	How serious even is climate change and when should we start building our rafts?
0:45.0	Hello everyone you may recognize me as Gabby from the History of Everything podcast and my name is
0:50.3	Brenna and you don't recognize me from anything yet.
0:54.0	Together we're two scientists to explore the answers to these questions and many, many more in
0:58.0	our new podcast Mystery of Everything.
1:00.7	Available everywhere you get your podcasts.
1:03.0	Can I get two spring salads with chicken to go?
1:10.0	Two hamburgers and a milk please. Yeah, do you guys have any milkshakes?
1:16.4	We'll hear how these people are feeding their brains in just a moment.
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