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David Eagleman

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Neuroscientist @ Stanford, bestselling author, tech CEO. Podcast: Inner Cosmos.

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Who hated the word "moist" in the 19th century? Linguist Mark Liberman analyzed old texts to show that some authors used "moist" often, while others never used it once in millions of words. Why is there such a difference between people and their aversion to particular words? Find out on this week's episode of Inner Cosmos. eagleman.com/podcast/26 #brain #language #moist created by David Eagleman with David Eagleman's original sound
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Who hated the word "moist" in the 19th century? Linguist Mark Liberman analyzed old texts to show that some authors used "moist" often, while others never used it once in millions of words.
Why is there such a difference between people and their aversion to particular words?
Find out on this week's episode of Inner Cosmos.
eagleman.com/podcast/26
#brain #language #moist
Moist. Nugget. Panties. Slacks.
What do these words have in common?
Many people can't stand them.
What does this have to do with the brain? Unpack the mystery of word aversion in this week's episode of Inner Cosmos: "Why do people dislike moist more than moose, but not as much as merts?"
eagleman.com/podcast/26
#brain #language #moist
How does attention to one thing sometimes cause us to miss clues elsewhere? Find out more about deception and the brain on the latest episode of Inner Cosmos, where I'm joined by my colleagues Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons (of 'invisible gorilla' fame).
eagleman.com/podcast/25
#brain #attention #deception
This week's episode of Inner Cosmos is about how we get duped (and how to avoid it). The brain often builds erroneous mental models, and sometimes those get taken advantage of. How can we be more aware of truths vs half-truths?
eagleman.com/podcast/25
#brain
What does drug addiction have in common with heartbreak? I suggest that in the same way a brain reconfigures itself to expect a drug, it does the same with the people in our lives -- making their disappearance something that requires painful, physical rewiring.
eagleman.com/podcast/24
#brain
Why do your eyes jump around all the time?
Would you see nothing at all if they didn't?
Learn some unexpected truths (+ self-experiments) about the strangeness of vision on this week's Inner Cosmos.
eagleman.com/podcast/24
#brain #neuroscience
After you run on a treadmill, why does the world seem to zip past you faster? What critical clues does that surface about the brain? Find out on this episode of Inner Cosmos: "What does drug withdrawal have in common with heartbreak?"
eagleman.com/podcast/24
#brain #neuroscience
Why did people in the 1980s (and only in the 1980s) perceive horizontal lines as tinted red? And what does that tell us about brains, boats, & gyms?
Join me for this week's episode of Inner Cosmos: "What does drug withdrawal have in common with heartbreak?"
eagleman.com/podcast/24
#brain #neuroscience
How might we use AI to decode animal communication? Join me and my guest Aza Raskin in episode 23 of Inner Cosmos as we discuss the state of the art.
eagleman.com/podcast/23
#brain #animal #language
How will we come to translate what animals are saying? Find out why our prospects are better than ever on the latest episode on Inner Cosmos.
Includes an interview with guest Aza Raskin, cofounder of the Earth Species Project.
eagleman.com/podcast/23
#brain #animal #language
If we meet aliens someday, how will we figure out what they're saying?
We face this problem right here at home, with 2M species & no Google Translate. Join me + my guest Aza Raskin to see how we might get to animal translation on today's new episode of Inner Cosmos.
eagleman.com/podcast/23
#brain #animal #language
What did photography a century ago have in common with Instagram filters today? And what do these both have to do with neurons and sexual attraction? 

Find out more in this week's episode of Inner Cosmos ("What do we find beautiful?") available wherever you listen to your podcasts.

eagleman.com/podcast/22

#brain #beauty
When you are attracted to another person, what are the invisible computations happening under the hood?

Whenever something seems obvious to our conscious minds ("that person is beautiful"), that's a good sign to dig deeper. Often the path to understand is to view the familiar as strange.

Find out the whole story of allure & neurons on this week's episode of Inner Cosmos: "What do we find beautiful?"

eagleman.com/podcast/22

#brain #beauty
New episode of Inner Cosmos out now.
What and who do we find attractive, and why? Why did portrait photographers put vaseline on their lenses, and what does that have to do with Instagram filters? And what does any of this have to do with mating, optimal decision making, puberty, frogs, thirst, and movie stars?
Learn everything you've wanted to know about your brain's sense of beauty (and possibly some questions you didn't even think to ask) wherever you get your podcasts.
eagleman.com/podcast/22
#brain #beauty
Some situations inspire bad behavior. Careful study of that won't let anyone off the hook... but it may allow us to craft our future a bit more wisely.
Listen to Inner Cosmos wherever you get your podcasts.
eagleman.com/podcast/21
#brain #neuroscience
After he had run the Stanford Prison Experiment, Philip Zimbardo wondered how much our behavior is shaped by our context. And more generally, how is our behavior shaped by the larger social structures we're embedded in?
To find out more, listen to the whole episode of Inner Cosmos wherever you get your podcasts.
eagleman.com/podcast/21
#brain #neuroscience
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