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Returns for a third season of interactive experiments that test how easily the brain can be fooled, uncovering the surprising nature of how we process information, feel emotions, and perceive the world around us. Host and wonder junkie Jason Silva and Deception specialist Apollo Robbins explore a world where time slows down, reality is an illusion and things aren't always as they seem, the human brain.
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents. A childhood of neglect and, later, a job at a tannery, encourage Jean-Baptiste to develop his olfactory sense rather than his verbal skills. An opportunity to prove his worth to Parisian perfumist Giuseppe Baldini results in his immediate hire into a promising new career. His...
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Infants' brains are actively developing with everything they experience. Examine how newborns fit into the sensorimotor stage - tracing cognitive development from simple reflexes to beginnings of thought. Explore infant intelligence, information processing and memory. See the progression of infant communication from crying - to giggling - to euphoric babbling and their first words! Understand how language is learned and how caregivers can use infant-directed...
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Interactive games and intricate experiments designed to leave viewers rethinking how much faith they are willing to put in everything from memory to multitasking. Host Jason Silva and Deception Specialist Apollo Robbins are teaming up with some of the world's foremost neuroscientists to reveal the incredible inner-workings of the brain.
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"[This] three-part series provides a fascinating window into the inner workings of the brain as never before. Through interactive experiments and tricks, [the programs] reveal how our brains create the illusion of a seamless reality. As these revealing experiments provide a unique view into our brains, the world's leading experts explain how and why these tests work." -- Container.
Bonus program: How to build a beating heart: "Scientists are using...
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Blinded by an accident as a child, Murdock uses his heightened senses as Daredevil, fighting crime on the streets of New York after the sun goes down. His efforts are not welcomed by powerful businessman Wilson Fisk (AKA Kingpin), and others whose interests collide with Daredevil's. Though Murdock's day job suggests a man who believes in the criminal justice system, his alter ego proves otherwise, as he takes the law into his own hands to protect...
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Lecture series on sensation, perception and how these are affected and change with age taught from an academic psychology perspective. A recurring concern throughout the course is the understanding of human behavior. Behavior does not occur randomly or haphazardly. Behavior has reasons and happens in response to some detectable stimulus event that has taken place in our internal or external environment.
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Using a series of experiments, illusions, and demonstrations, host Jason Silva and guest experts unlock the science behind the mysteries of why we say, see, eat, feel, and act as we do. Hailed by critics as tremendous fun that makes science entertaining, it turns your mind's eye inward for a fascinating journey into the 3 1/2 pounds of tissue.
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All my senses: At school, Sid and his friends embark on a quest to explore vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste!
Sid's health day: Sid learns the benefits of nutritious foods, washing his hands, brushing his teeth and exercising.
Sleep?! Who needs iIt? : Sid explores how the body needs sleep to properly function and why we need sleep to stay healthy!
The reason Sid's sneezin' : Sid learns that washing his hands with soap and water will help...
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In the 2020 high-definition program, learn all about the human eyes and ears. What are the parts of the eyes and ears and the functions of each part? What are the role of the brain in processing sights and sounds? What is an optical illusion? What is the Doppler Effect? The answers to these questions and many more are covered with detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment....
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Babies arrive in this world with amazing brains. Braincandy believes in nourishing children with enriching ideas that helps feed their hunger for learning. Features funny puppets representing the 5 sense parts. Children engage in capitivating, sensory activities and innovative animation of how the senses work.
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From a castle in England to the New Jersey shore, host Jason Silva and renowned guest experts engage volunteers in experiments, games and exercises that reveal fascinating truths about the workings of the human brain. This season explores topics like the brain's amazing, if sometimes inconvenient, selective memory function, and whether or not people are literally born to be bad.
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