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Watch an experiment in which we studied time perception by dropping volunteer subjects from a 150 foot high tower. Free fall.

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Interested in synesthesia? Watch a lecture I gave at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Hear British rocker Jarvis Cocker read the short story "Descent of Species" from Sum.

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New Scientist magazine recently featured my time perception research as their cover story.

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Scanning a 3,000 year old mummy

I recently performed a CT scan on Neskhons, an Egyptian mummy who I brought to our scanning facilities at Baylor College of Medicine.
Italy's STYLE magazine: Idea Guys for 2012

Think it's unlikely for a scientist to be featured on the cover of an Italian fashion magazine? Me too! But strange things happen...
Brain Time

The days of thinking of time as a river—evenly flowing, always advancing—are over. Time perception, just like vision, is a construction of the brain.
Why I am a Possibilian

Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story is true or not true. I call myself a possibilian. Find out why.