Tweeting Directly From Your Brain (And What's Next)

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🗓️ 18 March 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Our friends at NPR's TED Radio Hour podcast have been pondering some BIG things — specifically, the connection between our physical, mental, and spiritual health. In this special excerpt, what if you could control a device, not with your hand, but with your mind? Host Manoush Zomorodi talks to physician and entrepreneur Tom Oxley about the implantable brain-computer interface that can change the way we think.

Keep an eye on NPR's TED Radio Hour podcast feed the next few weeks, as they unveil the series.

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0:00.0	Hey, short waivers, Emily Kwong here with a very special guest.
0:04.6	Mnuch Somorodi, the host of NPR's Ted Radio Hour.
0:07.5	Hi, Mnuch.
0:08.6	Hello, Emily and hello short waivers.
0:11.1	Mnuch, I am so excited you're here.
0:12.7	And I understand you have a special present for us today.
0:15.8	Who I do.
0:16.3	The Grand Reveal of part one of a big series you've been working on.
0:19.8	Tell us about it.
0:20.8	Okay.
0:21.3	So we've all heard the hashtag MindBodySpirit.
0:25.6	I said it to my 12 year old daughter and she was like,
0:28.7	Oh, that's such a cliche.
0:30.4	And I was like, well, okay, it is a cliche, but there's a reason why it exists.
0:34.4	MindBodySpirit, this connection between these three things people have been trying
0:38.6	to understand it for millennia.
0:41.4	And it's become this hashtag that means nothing.
0:44.1	Well, we are reclaiming it and we are doing a special three part series.
0:48.7	One episode examining the mind and new ideas about how we perceive the world.
0:54.4	Another examining the body, new ideas about feeling good in our bodies and feeling
1:00.9	like we understand how our bodies work.
1:03.1	And then finally an episode about the spirit.
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