BRAINLAND
By Ken Barrett
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Brainland the podcast navigates the boundary between neuroscience, the arts and humanities with the occasional wander off piste. It began as a neuro-historical exploration of the background to the Brainland the opera but quickly spread its wings. A Brainland Collective production.
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FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Linguistic shape-shifting.
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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DERRIDA'S CAT: Exploring the boundaries of the human.
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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DOPPELGANGER: Doubles in psychiatry, neurology and fiction.
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May 19, 2026 |
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BIOETHICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
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May 12, 2026 |
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POSTHUMANIST VULNERABILITY
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May 07, 2026 |
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FREUD AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALING
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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PROTO: Uncovering the shared origin of the world's most spoken languages.
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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GEORGE SAND: The life, times and shifting reputation of an early feminist writer and thinker.
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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TRANSHUMANISM: Humanity's great hope or the devil's work?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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THE MATCHBOX GIRL: Recreating Hans Asperger's world in fiction
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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HANS ASPERGER AND THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM: Reflections on the past, present and future
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Mar 06, 2026 |
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SEASON 2 FINALE: Surfing Brainland
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Feb 07, 2026 |
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FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley.
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations.
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 1 - Life and films.
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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AN ARTIFICIAL HISTORY OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE: Time travelling the mind.
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Jan 17, 2026 |
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WILLIAM SARGANT AND HIS 'SLEEP ROOM': Shrinks, spooks and medical hubris.
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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MANHANDLING THE BRAIN: How did damaging the brains of the mentally ill ever seem a good idea?
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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THE HORROR! The anatomy of fear in film.
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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HORROR ON THE BRAIN: The neuroscience behind sci fi and horror.
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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DREAM WARRIORS: Exploring the world of the surrealists...
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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DREAMWORKS: Fellini's dream obsession, from graphic diaries to movies.
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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'...PERCHANCE TO DREAM: On the neuroscience of sleep and dreaming...
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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MUSIC OF THE SPHERES: Exploring the strange power of plainchant.
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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NEUROPSYCHIATRY AFTER DARK: Service development as 'social sculpture'?
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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DANTE, DOPAMINE AND ME: Neuro-poetic and other explorations into language.
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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'THE BURDEN': The life and times of the Burden Neurological Institute and Hospital.
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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GREY WALTER: Maverick genius of cybernetics and the EEG
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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CIRCLING AROUND EXPLICITNESS: Adventures in the 'thatosphere'.
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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MONTALE'S CRUCIBLE: The life, loves and poetry of an Italian Nobel Laureate.
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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CHANGING HOW WE CHOOSE: The new science of morality.
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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OH FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE: From choirboy to Operatic Maestro.
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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RE-ANIMATING FREUD: Sigmund at the movies
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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NEUROCINEMATIC EXPLORATIONS: Cinema creators in the act of creation.
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS: Life, loss and musicology.
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Aug 15, 2025 |
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RE-ANIMATING FREUD: The Neuropsychoanalyst can see you now...
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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NEUROPSYCHIATRY REVISITED: The lost tribes.
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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YOUR BRAIN ON VISUAL ART: Exploring the world of visual neuroaesthetics.
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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TODAY IS ALWAYS YESTERDAY: Contemporary art through the lens of Brazil
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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EXPANDING MINDSCAPES: A psychedelic world tour.
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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IMPROV! When the process is the product.
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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PSYCHEDELIC OUTLAWS
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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NEUROPSYCHIATRY: Second Coming or Unholy Alliance?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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POETRY AND THE NEUROAESTHETICS OF SURVIVAL
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May 13, 2025 |
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WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE AN ADDICT? A philosopher tells it like it is.
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May 08, 2025 |
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UPSIDE DOWN IN A HOOP: Processing change through writing, dance and circus skills
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May 01, 2025 |
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YOUR BRAIN ON DANCE: Navigating the complex world of dance neuroscience.
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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TRANSFORMING MENTAL STATES INTO DANCE: Evolving German Tanztheatre in London.
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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DECONSTRUCTING CONSCIOUSNESS: A philosophy for the science of animal consciousness
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOCHEMISTRY: New perspectives on the chemistry of you.
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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I FEEL I AM NOT IN MY PERFECT MIND: Alzheimer's and cognitive decline in movies.
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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SOLARIS: Probing the Lem/Tarkovsky masterwork.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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SEASON 1 FINALE: Brainland at the Messina Cinema and Opera Festival 2024.
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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LITERARY THEORY FOR ROBOTS: The weird and wonderful origins of machine language.
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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CURIOUS MINDS: What good is curiosity?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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SCREEN TIME 2: Sci-fi cinema's art of memory.
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?: Memory, the brain and our sense of self.
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppetry in healthcare.
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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SCREEN TIME: Cinema's art of memory
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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MOOD MUSIC: Could Shostakovich change your mind?
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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THE VITAL SPARK: The Evolution of Imagination.
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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THE VITAL SPARK: The Creative Brain.
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppets in opera.
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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YOUR BRAIN ON RELIGION: Exploring the neuroscience of religious experience.
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH: The story of a movie.
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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THE VITAL SPARK: A pianist's tale.
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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YOUR MUSICAL HEALTH: The efficacy of music as therapy.
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May 19, 2024 |
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THE VITAL SPARK: A director's tale.
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May 13, 2024 |
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THE VITAL SPARK: A novelist's tale.
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May 07, 2024 |
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BRAINWAVES: Hans Berger and the discovery of the EEG.
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppetry.
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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POEMS, CHATBOTS AND EPILEPSY: Understanding and ameliorating life with seizures.
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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FEELING GROOVY: Exploring the brain's response to music.
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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OBJECTS WITH SOUL: The strange power of puppetry.
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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NO HAMMER NEEDED: The wonderful world of neurointeractive art.
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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BRAVE NEW WORLDS : Your neural interface awaits...
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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YOUR BRAIN ON BEAUTY: Welcome to the world of neuroaesthetics...
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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MUSIC AND THE DEEPEST PART OF YOU...
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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THE VITAL SPARK: Tourette syndrome and creativity.
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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COMPUTATIONAL PSYCHIATRY IS IN THE BUILDING: Brain information processing and the future of psychiatry.
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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BRAINHACKING: Ethical and legal challenges posed by new neurotechnologies.
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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MIND WARS: Military and intelligence funding of brain science - a curious history.
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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ROBOTS: Taking over or just overtaking?
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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ILLUMINATING THE SELF
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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EUGENICS: The pseudoscience that's never really gone away.
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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JOYFUL ASTONISHMENT AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM.
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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TWO HEADS: Where two neuroscientists explore how our brains work with other brains (Part 2)
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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TWO HEADS: Where two neuroscientists explore how our brains work with other brains (Part 1)
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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MESSAGES FROM ANOTHER WORLD
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May 17, 2023 |
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MANHANDLING THE BRAIN
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May 12, 2023 |
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TOPSY GOES TO NORWAY
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May 05, 2023 |
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BRAINLAND THE OPERA - An introduction
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May 05, 2023 |