S2E4: Savants: When Brilliance Drops In

Grammy-nominated artist Willow Smith joins Ky Dickens for a deeply personal conversation about music as medicine, dreams as creative portals, spirituality, and the mystery of human connection.Willow shares how a lifetime of curiosity - from sacred traditions and nature to science ...  Show more

The Telepathy Tapes returns October 7 with Season 3: The Reincarnation Records.If The Telepathy Tapes deconstructed what you believe about consciousness, The Reincarnation Records may shatter it.On October 7th, Ky Dickens takes on one of humanity’s oldest questions in a new podca ...  Show more

Traumatic brain injuries can be life-altering. Imagine surviving one and coming out the other side completely different. Furthermore, imagine suddenly being able to do things you’ve never done, like master a musical instrument, instantly calculate huge sums in your head or recall ...  Show more

The girlies talk genius. Is it a magical trait only available to a lucky few? Is it a practiced skill that can be honed by anyone? They use two geniuses from history — Temple Grandin and Leonardo DaVinci — as case studies to talk about what makes up the most ingenious among us ...

Synesthesia is a connection between senses. It could be the key to understanding brilliance. Most people are born with it, but in a few rare cases people have acquired it after a traumatic brain injury. We'll also cover the neurodiversity of autism with Dr Simon Baron-Cohen. For ...  Show more

It's happened to all of us: We're in the shower, or on a walk, and boom — a big idea or a brilliant solution appears out of nowhere. These sorts of insights often seem to arise without explanation. But researchers increasingly find there is a science to cultivating creativity. ...