Your brain does not faithfully report damage. It constructs a verdict about what is happening to your body, and sometimes that verdict is wrong. That is the central argument of this episode, and…
Hannah Fry has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Rest Is Science. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
“I think the whole thing's nonsense. Yeah, I I find it really annoying because they get so into it and they're like, 'oh, when are we...' it emotionally matters to them that we become a type three civilization. And I'm like, 'yeah, why?'”
— Hannah Fry, on the Kardashev Scale.
Your brain does not faithfully report damage. It constructs a verdict about what is happening to your body, and sometimes that verdict is wrong. That is the central argument of this episode, and…
The audio illusion that proves we don't experience reality Michael Stevens and Hannah Fry open with a simple demonstration: a sawtooth wave played at one hertz, then five, then twenty, then a…
A 25-Year-Old Space Pen Still Writes — Here's Why Michael Stevens brought a sealed Fisher space pen to the studio — a souvenir from his teenage years at space camp in Hutchinson, Kansas — that he…
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