WeWow Halloween 2022 – Day 5: Adventures in Aphantasia: When the Mind is Blind
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Welcome back to HalloWeWow! Today, we're listening to Aphantasia: When the Mind is Blind, and testing out a mind mapping challenge! Grownups, share your photos and videos of your Wowzer's tinkerings at tinkercast.com/share. Thanks for joining us this week!
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wee Wow Week! |
| 0:05.0 | Weewow Week! |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome back to Weewow! |
| 0:11.0 | A hands-on crash course in fun, fun, to We Wow! Wow! A Hands On Crash Course and Fun Fun 101 for Science Seekers and Inventoritos everywhere. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm Mindy! |
| 0:21.3 | And I'm Guy Raz, and it's Hallo Wow Week here in the Weewow Laboratory of Bad Ideas. |
| 0:28.0 | That's right. Every day this week we'll be sharing one of our favorite Halloweeny episodes of Wow in the World |
| 0:34.9 | to help get you in a spook-tacular science spirit. |
| 0:39.3 | But that's not all. |
| 0:40.8 | Every day this week we'll also share a new tinkering challenge for you to try while |
| 0:46.4 | you listen. Today's episode is all about something called Avantasia. People with Avantasia are unable to create pictures in their minds. |
| 0:57.0 | Imagination can be pretty powerful, but sometimes we need a little help to get it going. |
| 1:04.0 | So for today's Wee W-Wow tinkering challenge, |
| 1:06.8 | we're gonna create some mind maps. |
| 1:09.8 | Mind maps are a great way to get our brain muscles pumped up for some serious imagining. |
| 1:15.8 | Here's how it works. You start with one word or idea, and then you grow that word or idea by adding words and phrases and pictures. |
| 1:27.0 | Let's get started. |
| 1:28.0 | For this mind mapping challenge, you're going to need a piece of paper and something to write with. |
| 1:34.9 | And now for the WOW2. |
| 1:37.9 | Step number one. |
| 1:39.5 | Write one word or idea in the center of a blank page. This could be anything you want to |
| 1:45.8 | expand your thinking about. And I would like to expand my thinking about |
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