Synesthetes and Seekers

Synesthetes and Seekers

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House Hacking

Even if you think you can't afford it, there are ways to buy a home and leverage it as an investment. Real Estate prodigy Skylar Brillante drops by to drop some knowledge on me. He explains how investors do things, how to buy a house and what your options are if you already own a ...  Show more

A Stroke of Insight

A DNA test sends me down the rabbit hole of ancestry until I’m stuck with a dilemma that could change my life. I don’t remember my grandparents. When their stories were told it meant nothing to me. A DNA test inspires me to discover my ancestry for myself until a sudden event cha ...  Show more

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Seeing Sounds, Tasting Names: The world of synesthesia
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Synesthesia is a neurological condition where one sensory experience gets combined with another, meaning someone might hear sounds when they eat, or see colors when they listen to music. So what exactly is synesthesia? And what’s it like to go through life with these unique senso ...  Show more

67: The Science of Synesthesia
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Can you see sounds? Smell letters? Feel colours? Synesthesia is a condition that links people’s senses, so some people in the word can actually do this! We discuss the science behind this (not so) super power... You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel: http://youtube ...  Show more

Encore - Tasty words, colorful sounds - How people with synesthesia experience the world, with Julia Simner, PhD
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More than 4% of people have some form of synesthesia, a neurological condition that causes senses to link and merge. People with synesthesia may taste words, hear colors, or see calendar dates arrayed in physical space. Dr. Julia Simner, a professor of neuropsychology at the Univ ...  Show more

Better Together
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Larry and Sarah Nannery didn't know that Sarah was autistic when they first met and fell in love. They knew their brains worked differently and sometimes that was frustrating, but very often it was also incredibly interesting. They had their miscommunications, but they made figur ...  Show more