Heartbeat in the Brain, Hole in the Skull

The Ig Nobel Prizes once more honor ten studies that make us laugh, but then make us think. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe continue their annual tradition of discussing some of their favorites from this year’s winners.See omnystudio.com/listener for pr ...  Show more

AI is changing cybersecurity and raising hard questions about how fast organizations canrespond. Earlier this year, IBM and Red Hat launched Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative backed by a force of20,000 engineers with the goal of securing the open source software that powers a gr ...  Show more

One of the oldest medical procedures in human history is also one of the riskiest. For thousands of years humans carried a type of proto brain surgery where a hole would be cut into the skull. And they were pretty good at it too.

For everything we know about the human brain, consciousness is still mysterious. Could reports of people remaining conscious after being executed by decapitation be true? Learn what science has to say in this episode of BrainStuff.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www ...  Show more

Lobotomies -- brain surgeries to relieve psychiatric problems -- are rarely performed today, but they were once fairly common. Tune in to learn more about the controversial history and practice of lobotomies.