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[5:08] Mice are an increasingly popular animal model for understanding vision in health and disease, but we know littl…
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[4:00] What happens to our brains when we seek revenge? Here’s why revenge might actually leave you feeling wors…
MORETom Gash: Why People Do Bad Things
[6:47] Why People Do Bad Things with Tom Gash. What informs our views on crime? Why do myths prevail across the political …
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[13:06] Biologist Sarkis Mazmanian presented “Gut Feelings: How Intestinal Bacteria Regulate Emotion and Behavi…
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[5:37] THE BRAIN EVOLVED TO NOT THINK ABOUT THINKING… It evolved to deal quickly with the hundreds of things we ha…
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[35:44] Scopolamine, AKA Devil’s breath, is one of the scariest, if not the scariest street drug around. In pi…
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