Why do we dream?

Why do we dream?

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Why are we ticklish?

Socrates, Aristotle, Galileo, and Darwin couldn't figure it out. But one scientist has built a tickle robot (named Hektor) to try and settle the mystery of ticklishness once and for all. Guest: Konstantina Kilteni, principal investigator of the Touch & Tickle Lab at the Donders I ...  Show more

How does creativity work?

You know that feeling when time and space melt away and new ideas seem to flow through you? Neuroscientist Heather Berlin explains what we know about how creative flow states might change the way the networks in our brains interact. Guest: Heather Berlin, author of The Fine Art o ...  Show more

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