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All in the Mind (Science)

  • Genres: Science
  • Location: Melbourne, Australia
  • Language: English
  • Networks: ABC Radio
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Wakey Wakey! The many lives of amphetamine

Sat, Oct 4
The 1929 discovery of amphetamine heralded the dawn of the age of Speed -- a drug with an extraordinary and triumphant career

Skeptics on skeptical thinking

Sat, Sep 27
Nobody likes being told their most cherished beliefs are based on myth and misconception

Part 2 of 2 - The power of plasticity

Sat, Sep 20
The brain is more plastic than scientists once believed

Part 1 of 2: The Power of Plasticity

Sat, Sep 13
The dogma used to be that the adult brain was a rigid, unchangeable organ, but that pessimistic perspective is now being radically revised

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: probing the label

Sat, Sep 6
Alcohol and pregnancy don't mix

Beyond coma: the plight of the persistent vegetative state

Sat, Aug 30
A woman thought to be in a persistent vegetative state, unresponsive and unconscious to herself and the world, is asked to play a game of 'mental' tennis

The Mind of the Market - National Science Week forum

Sat, Aug 23
Are markets moral? Is our hunter-gatherer brain geared for modern capitalism, and do economies work like evolutionary organisms? The rise of neuroeconomics, the extinction of Homo Economicus and more - with outspoken founder of the U

The Stuff of Thought with Steven Pinker

Sat, Aug 16
Why do we often avoid speaking our mind? Does swearing have an evolutionary function? What do linguistic taboos do to your brain? How are new words born? Acclaimed author of The Language Instinct and How the Mind Works, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is a self-confessed verbivore

Being your own therapist - Buddhist style

Sat, Aug 9
Venerable Robina Courtin, acclaimed Australian Tibetan Buddhist nun, has excavated the suffering mind at its greatest depths of despair

Is being gay in your biology?

Sat, Aug 2
What makes someone gay? The quest for the biological roots of sexual orientation remains rife with controversy

Special Series (Part 3 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: Patient rights and staf

Sat, Jul 26
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime

Special Series (Part 2 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: stories from inside the

Sat, Jul 19
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime

Special Series (Part 1 of 3) Up the Line to Goodna: stories from inside the

Sat, Jul 12
As old as the state of Queensland itself, Goodna Mental Hospital became Australia's largest and oldest asylum, housing 50,000 people over its lifetime

Apes, legal personhood and the plight of Nim Chimpsky

Sat, Jul 5
In Austria, animal activists have taken the case of a chimp called Matthew as far as the European Court of Human Rights

Brain hijinks: out-of-body experiences and other tricks of consciousness

Sat, Jun 28
What happens when your brain sees the world not as it really is? This week, the scientific effort to simulate out-of-body experiences to probe the limits of the self

Michael Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady tales

Sat, Jun 21
One of the big names of the brain is Michael Gazzaniga, whose career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry

Brave New Mind: Smart drugs and the ethics of neuro-enhancement

Sat, Jun 14
An April Fools prank this year saw the launch of the World Anti-Brain Doping Authority

Courage: Guts, grit, spine, heart, and verve.

Sat, Jun 7
Polish-born Sabina Wolanski, now 80, was a teenager when her entire family was killed by Nazis, and was the sole Holocaust survivor to speak at the launch of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

When Words and Science Meet - All in the Mind at the Sydney Writer's Festiv

Sat, May 31
Stefan Merrill Block's debut novel, The Story of Forgetting, is a clever tale about familial Alzheimer's disease

Museums Week: A magical mystery tour through the scientific psyche

Sat, May 24
A collection of butterfly genitalia gathered by novelist Nabokov; a precious sand dollar from Darwin's epic Beagle voyage; tapeworms from the stomachs of wealthy Bostonians - Harvard's acclaimed Natural History Museum is a vast treasure trove of biological objects and oddities

The science of happiness

Sat, May 17
The pursuit of happiness is a global obsession

Quitting the habit: neurobiology, addiction and the insidious ciggie

Sat, May 10
Smokers cling to the ciggies for dear life, knowing it will likely be a much shorter one

Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze [Part

Sat, May 3
Maori people believe the body is derived from the earth, and returns to the ancestral earth at deathcomplete

Disembodied brains, culture and science: Indigenous lives under gaze (Part

Sat, Apr 26
The incredible saga of Ishi, California's last "wild" Indian, is the stuff of American folklore

Stone Age brains in 21st century skulls

Sat, Apr 19
Front up to your shrink, and you bring a menagerie of hunter gatherers, anteaters and reptiles from your ancestral past with you

A day in the life of...Meet the Ingersons

Sat, Apr 12
Four-year-old Tara has a very special brain

Poetic Science: Bodies, brains and the art of experimentation

Sat, Apr 5
Meet polymath Ian Gibbins -- neuroscientist, anatomist and university professor by day; poet, performer and composer by night

Your irrational mind

Sat, Mar 29
Like it or not, you're not the beast of reason you think you are

Your inner ape

Sat, Mar 22
Apes are our closest relatives -- nearly 99% of our genes are identical -- but how do our inner lives compare? Culture, empathy, language, learning -- do chimps have the smarts to pull these off? Channel your 'inner ape' with the world's top primatologists as they unearth surprising results

The psyche on Death Row

Sat, Mar 15
Four Australians remain on Death Row in prisons offshore

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