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Inner Cosmos explores the relationship between our brain and our experiences by tackling unusual questions that illuminate novel facets of our lives and our realities.
Does time really run in slow motion when you’re in a car accident?
Can we create new senses for humans?
What does dreaming have to do with the rotation of the planet?
Why did you eat that cookie even though you’re trying to diet?
What do you do when someone breaks the law because of a brain tumor?
What’s the real reason hunters wear orange?
Why is everyone with a different political opinion from yours misinformed?
Why did Pythagoras think numbers had genders and personalities?
Will you perceive the event that kills you?
…and dozens more
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Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman starting March 27th on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
"David Eagleman offers startling lessons.... His method is to ask us to cast off our lazy commonplace assumptions.
- The Guardian
"What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment."
- Sunday Herald
"[A] neuroscientist and polymath."
- Wall Street Journal
"David Eagleman may be the best combination of scientist and fiction-writer alive."
- Stewart Brand
"Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness."
- The New Yorker
"David Eagleman is the kind of guy who really does make being a neuroscientist look like fun."
- New York Times
"A popularizer of impressive gusto...[Eagleman] aims, grandly, to do for the study of the mind what Copernicus did for the study of the stars."
- New York Observer
