Brain Pops

Episodes 1 to 11 · all out now

• 1Your Dog Has A Picture In Its HeadSay 'ball' and your dog's brain pictures the ball, and scientists caught it on EEGListen on Spotify
• 2Why I Love Oliver SacksThe motorbiking, weightlifting, face-blind neurologist who wrote brains like love storiesListen on Spotify
• 3Phineas Gage and the Iron RodA railway worker, a flying iron bar, and the comeback story the textbooks forgotListen on Spotify

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Episodes 12 to 21 · all out now

• 12Are You Left Brained Or Right BrainedThe two-housemate brain, and why nobody lives on just one sideListen on Spotify
• 13Sorry Lucy You Use It AllThe ten per cent myth, and the sneaky grain of truth hiding inside itListen on Spotify
• 14Mozart Blur And The Baby Genius MythHow ten minutes of piano became a lullaby lawListen on Spotify

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Episodes 22 to 41 · 22 to 30 out now

• 22Face Blindness Is Way More Common Than You ThinkSome brains just don't do faces, and they've become incredible detectives insteadListen on Spotify
• 23The People Who Can't Picture an AppleClose your eyes and imagine an apple... what did you actually see?Listen on Spotify
• 24The Man Who Can Taste the London UndergroundColoured letters, tasty words, and a very suspicious set of fridge magnetsListen on Spotify

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Episodes 42 to 51 · coming soon

• 42Where Did All The Baby Memories GoBabies save memories from about their first birthday, so why can't we find them later?
• 43Inside The Memory PalaceAn ancient Greek party trick that can more than double your memory in forty days
• 44Lost In The MallHow one word, or one fake family story, can plant a memory that never happened

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Episodes 52 to 61 · coming soon

• 52Your Brain's Night-Time Wash CycleWhile you snooze, your brain pops on a load of washing
• 53Waving From Inside A DreamLucid dreamers who send messages out of their dreams, with their eyes
• 54Sleep Paralysis And The Horse In The CurtainsWhy your brain sometimes wakes up before your body does

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Episodes 62 to 71 · coming soon

• 62Why Songs Give You GoosebumpsThe science of music chills, and why your brain starts celebrating before the drop
• 63Meet Your Second BrainHundreds of millions of neurons in your gut, and the germ-free mice that taught us about them
• 64The Wandering Nerve And The Dreaming ScientistFrog hearts, a 3am lab dash, and the nerve that mostly listens

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Episodes 72 to 81 · coming soon

• 72Does An Octopus Have Nine BrainsTwo thirds of its neurons live in its arms, and it still knows which arms are its own
• 73Crows Hold GrudgesOne caveman mask, seven crows, and a grudge that lasted seventeen years
• 74Bees Understand ZeroA Melbourne study found honeybees put nothing below one

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Episodes 82 to 91 · coming soon

• 82The Teenage Brain Is Under RenovationWhy mates in the room turn a teen brain's reward system up to eleven
• 83Baby Brains Build Faster Than AnythingA million connections a second, and eight-month-old statisticians
• 84London Cabbies and Their Big HippocampusTwenty-five thousand streets, one very buff seahorse

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Episodes 92 to 101 · coming soon

• 92Waking Up With A Brand New AccentWhen a small brain change rewrites the melody of your voice
• 93When Someone You Love Seems Like An ImpostorRight face, missing glow: the fascinating science of Capgras
• 94The Hand With A Mind Of Its OwnAlien hand syndrome, Dr Strangelove, and the brain's approval desk

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