Remembers Only

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

You must remember this… wait, wait... I had it… on the tip of my tongue… (Memory is a tricky thing and most of us would like to improve it)… oh, yes: Discover the secrets of stupefying, knock-your-socks-off recall by a U.S. Memory Champion. Also, almost everything we know about memory comes from the life of one man born in 1926 and known as H.M., the world’s “most unforgettable amnesiac.” Plus, the sum total of the global data storage capacity in hard drives, thumb drives, the Internet, you name it… guess how many exabytes it comes to? Guests: • Larry Squire – Professor of psychiatry and neurosciences and psychology at the University of California, San Diego and a scientist at the VA Medical Center in San Diego • Jacopo Annese – Neuroanatomist and Director of the Brain Observatory at the University of California, San Diego • Joshua Foer – Author of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything • Martin Hilbert – Economist and social scientist, University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 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	Get ready to geek out.
0:07.0	The Wired Science Podcast explores all the latest and greatest in science,
0:12.0	everything from strange diseases and biological breakthroughs
0:15.6	to interesting tech and mysteries in outer space.
0:18.7	Listen to Wired Science today
0:20.5	wherever you get your podcasts.
0:22.2	That's Wired Science, wherever you get your podcasts. That's Wired Science wherever you get your
0:24.5	podcasts. The corporate world is like the ocean. It's alluring but it's also
0:29.6	full of deadly creatures that can shred you to pieces. It becomes kind of like a game of
0:34.2	throne's political arena where everyone's trying to murder you to get your job.
0:38.7	My family doesn't come from corporate backgrounds so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that.
0:43.2	This is not your typical work podcast.
0:45.4	Sometimes you need to be empathetic and then there are times that you ask for input
0:48.9	but you don't really give a shit.
0:50.3	Listen to the and the award-nominated podcast,
0:52.6	Surfing Corporate.
0:53.4	Stretch opportunity.
0:54.6	What is the yoga class?
0:55.6	Get out of diamonds, ten of diamonds, king of hearts, jack of clubs.
1:18.6	This is what exercising your hippocampus sounds like.
1:21.6	This guy has memorized a deck of playing cards. The
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