Q and A: Disney, Dark Matter, and Deja Vu

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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What is dj vu? Why do I get angry when I'm hungry? Why do I remember every Disney lyric, but can't remember how to set my oven? Materials physicist Jess Wade, neuroscientist Philipe Bujold, animal behaviour expert Eleanor Drinkwater, and physicist Francesca Day join Chris Smith, to answer a brilliant barrage of scientific questions... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.0	Hello.
0:04.0	Hello.
0:05.0	Welcome.
0:06.0	Science and that is the same
0:10.0	physics, medicine, nature, or time big time, brain, life, the universe.
0:15.0	Hello, it's science, but not necessarily as we know it.
0:19.0	Stay tuned to find out whether you can train your goldfish, whether light weighs anything and
0:24.0	why can I remember every lyric to every song and every Disney movie
0:28.7	but can't remember which setting to put the oven on.
0:31.7	That's one we can definitely all identify with. I'm
0:35.2	Chris Smith and you're listening to The Naked Scientists. The Naked
0:39.6	Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co. UK.
0:44.0	Now with me this week to take on your science questions are
0:52.8	Philippe Bouchot who's a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge
0:57.4	so what neuroscientic fact have you got for us for us for us?
1:00.0	Yes so I came with a big debunking of a myth today because I started teaching in high schools recently
1:06.1	and I realized a lot of people think that actually we only use 10% of our rain.
1:10.7	That is not true. That's the biggest myth we have in neuroscience and
1:14.0	actually the reason why it's not true is because the brain is extremely
1:17.2	efficient. We have nothing in our brain that isn't useful. It's about 2% of
1:21.2	our mass in terms of kilos, but it's about 20% of our energy use.
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