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We Can Be Weirdos

The Rough Corner: The Brain Studied Around the World ft. Sadie Dingfelder

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Science writer Sadie Dingfelder has always known that she's a little quirky. But while she's made some strange mistakes over the years, it's not until she accosts a stranger in a grocery store (who she thinks is her husband) that she realises something is amiss...

In her book, Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter’s Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination, Sadie investigates the neuroscience of prosopagnosia (faceblindness), stereoblindness, aphantasia (an inability to create mental imagery), and a condition called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory. You can pre-order it now or pick it up in the UK from August 8th!

***LIVE SHOW JULY 15TH GUEST ANNOUNCEMENT***

We Can Be Weirdos will be recorded LIVE on Monday 15th July 2024, at the Underbelly Boulevard, London. Another wild night to ignite the suppressed bit of batsh*t in you. It will feature Sara Pascoe, Lieven Scheire and more to be announced!

Head here for more info and to buy your tickets: https://underbellyboulevard.com/tickets/we-can-be-weirdos-live/

Transcript

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This is a global player original podcast.

0:45.6

Thank you. Global Player Original Podcast Hey everyone, welcome to The Rough Corner.

0:55.5

This is the bonus show that sits in between the main We Can Be Weirdos episodes, where I, Dan Shriver, I sit down, go through some correspondence, I talk about my weird week, or I sit down with someone who's doing weird stuff out there in the world and find out

0:59.7

all about it. And that's what we'll be doing this episode. Today, I'm going to be introducing

1:04.6

you to someone who has had multiple scientific papers written about their brain. But before I tell you who that is, I want to

1:12.2

quickly mention the upcoming live We Can Be Weirdo's show happening at the Underbelly Boulevard

1:17.0

in Soho on July 15th, so a couple of Mondays from now. It's going to be an amazing one.

1:23.1

This time, we are doing an all-out stand-up night. It's going to be a mixture of stand-up and lecture.

1:29.0

I'm going to have academics. I'm going to have comedians. And all of them are going to be

1:32.4

dipping their toes into the world of weird and telling us about odd experiences and making

1:37.5

us laugh. So joining us so far on the bill is Sarah Pascoe, Belgium's leading academic comedian Levenskira. And if you tune in to the main

1:47.9

We Can Be Weirdo's episode coming out later this week, I'm going to reveal the final name. So get your

1:52.0

tickets quick. It's going to be awesome. Audience participation. There's going to be prizes.

1:56.5

And you're going to laugh, get spooked, and walk away with a bunch of awesome facts to tell your friends.

2:01.5

It's going to be amazing. I'll be emceeing the evening. And then, like last time, let's all go to the

2:06.0

bar and have some drinks. It's going to be fun. So, if you want to come, head to the Underbelly Boulevard

2:11.3

website, and I can't wait. It's going to be awesome. All right, so let me tell you about today's guest. I'm joined this week by science journalist

2:18.4

Sadie Dingfelder. So Sadie, as you'll discover in this chat, had an amazing moment when she

2:23.6

was in her 30s when she discovered while standing in a grocery store that her brain was a bit

2:28.8

different to others. It was an extraordinary revelation, given that she's been a neuroscience journalist

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