EXTRAORDINARY! Archives - The Mind Voyager

Essential video portal focusing on human nature, promoting healthy skepticism, critical thinking and reason.

EXTRAORDINARY!

[47:07] Laslo Polgar an educational psychologist, set out on a mission to create a genius. His first experiment, with d…

[9:03] Savants, those legendary masters of mental mayhem. They are blessed with an oasis of talent in a desert of disabi…

[4:41] Steven Kotler explains that a new device and its imitators can trigger “mystical” experiences in …

[4:30] V.S. Ramachandran explains what causes amputees to have sensations in their phantom limbs, the parts of the bra…

[35:44] Scopolamine, AKA Devil’s breath, is one of the scariest, if not the scariest street drug around. In pi…

[27:28] This is the shocking story of a young child called Beth who’s mind was shattered by sexual abuse. This fil…

[1:23:38] Do we make conscious decisions? Or are all of our actions predetermined? And if we don’t have free will…

[5:03] The human body alone is pretty incredible, with the capability to heal itself of wounds, fight off disease and in…

[7:57] It took me 8 months to learn how to do this, but I was only picking up the bike and running to the end of the driveway an…

[5:12] Have you suddenly started speaking in an accent that doesn’t belong to you? Or maybe you’e taken to …