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2009-11-21 Climate change and the psyche In his new book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, top British climate scientist Mike Hulme wants to understand climate change as a psychological and cultural force. Anthropologist Jonathan Marshall has just edited a provocative collection of Jungian perspectives on climate change. They join Natasha Mitchell to discuss mythology, mental ecology and a changing climate.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-11-14 Michael Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady tales (highlight from the archives) Beyond the hype of left brain versus right brain lies the work of acclaimed neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga. His career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry, and together their trailblazing experiments have illuminated the differences between the brain´s two hemispheres. Today he´s on the US President´s Bioethics Council, heads up a major project on neuroscience and the law, and is a prolific writer of popular neuroscience.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-11-07 The secret life of bacteria - small, smart and thoughtful! [Highlight from the archive] We can´t survive without them -- and we´ve long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory -- Jules Verne eat your heart out -- Natasha Mitchell takes you on a strange adventure into the secret world of microbial mentality.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-10-31 The eyes have it! Deep time and future vision Some call the eyes the window on the soul. Trevor Lamb has been gazing into the eyes of living fossil 'fishy' beings, and deep into evolutionary time to unravel the beginnings of our incredible seeing organ. And what about its future? A myopia explosion in East Asian cities has folk worried, and there's good evidence for a surprising cause.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-10-24 Addiction, free will and self control Heard the one about the psychiatrist, the Supreme Court judge and the philosopher who walked in to a radio studio...? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests in a round-table interrogation of how the brain sciences are changing our understanding of addiction, and the powerful consequences for notions of free will, responsibility and culpability.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-10-17 Hearing Voices: stories from the coalface Mel was dux of her high school with bright prospects. At 25, she needs 24 hour family care, persecuted by a violent voice in her head who she calls Ron. Journalist Tom Tilley takes us to meet Mel and her family for a rare, raw and intimate insight into the experience of hearing voices; and reports on current uncertainty over causes and treatments. Features a special multimedia production.
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2009-10-10 You are NOT a Self! - bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness German philosopher of mind Thomas Metzinger is one of the world´s top researchers on consciousness, instrumental in its renaissance as a respectable problem for scientific enquiry. From out of body experiences to lucid dreaming, anarchic hand syndrome to phantom limbs - his investigations have taken him to places few dare to go. Be spooked, bewildered and amazed.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-10-03 Quality Street Quality Street was the first ABC weekly program dedicated to Poetry. It began in 1946 and ran for 27 years ...ending in 1973. What we are going to hear today are two programs, featuring AD Hope and Kenneth Slessor, from the later years of the show ...from April 1972 and March 1971.
My First Aquantance with Poets is from April 1972 and features the then Emeritus Professor of English at the Australian National University, poet and essayist, Alec Derwent Hope. He talks about four poets who h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-09-26 Dark Science: Pushing the limits of fear, flesh, pain and your psyche. Join us at the Dark Science night at Sydney´s Powerhouse Museum for a spectacle of side show science and (almost) R-rated research. Suspension artists hang from hooks through their flesh, tattoo artists ply their wares, and don´t miss the spiders and coffins too - it´s the science of fear and pain as you never heard it beforeListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-09-19 The coming of "The Singularity"...or not? Imagine a future where computers exceed our own intelligence; where problem solving is no longer limited by human thinking - what then? It´s a moment in technological time some call "The Singularity". But how much is technological reality, and how much fantasy? Science writer Mike McRae catches up with A.I researchers and sci fi writers to ponder the possibilities and probabilities.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-09-12 Sex, Knowledge and Science (Adelaide Festival of Ideas) Doing science has no room for gender and agendas, right? It's all about the objective pursuit of facts and truths about nature. Or is it? Acclaimed historian of science Londa Schiebinger, and top philosophers Simon Blackburn and Karen Green join Natasha Mitchell to debate the making of modern science, beards, breasts and how we came to be called mammals!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-09-05 Psychogeography: discovering the mental terrain of the city All in the Mind takes you on an extraordinarily ordinary journey across the mental and physical terrain of a big city. For many the ideal method of urban travel is straight out of Star Trek—teleporting. But in the 21st century city there are flaneurs and commuters savouring their journeys, on foot and by bike. They´re taking in the smells and sounds of back alleys, recalling emotional memories at intersections and celebrating stacks of shipping containers. Join us on a `psychogeograp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-08-29 Minds on the Margins A life on the streets or behind bars isn´t what we hope for our children. What leads them there? Mental illness? Family breakdown? Economic hardship? Two groundbreaking studies are fundamentally challenging the assumptions we make about our most marginalised, and the state of their mind.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-08-22 Many Selves, One Body: Dissociation and early trauma We all dissociate to a degree—compartmentalising major traumatic experiences in our psyche to protect ourselves. But Dissociation Identity Disorder is the extreme end, where a person might present multiple selves or 'alters' to the world without fully knowing it—swapping clothes, life histories and personalities each time they 'switch'. Don´t miss this firsthand account.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-08-15 Art on the Mind: Neuroaesthetics, and the artist as brain scientist! Acclaimed neuroscientist Semir Zeki pioneered the field of neuroaesthetics to probe the biological basis of the aesthetic experience, art, literature, love and beauty. He thinks scientists have lots to learn about the brain from the works of visual artists and romantic literature. And visit London´s Hayward Gallery, where the Walking in My Mind exhibition has been described as a 'vast humming cranium' as artists unearth their creative process through vast installations.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-08-08 Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 2 The theatre of war is changing, radically. With a push towards autonomous, robotic devices capable of killing - should the Laws of War change? One artificial intelligence leader argues machines could be more ethical and humane than humans in the battlefield. But, with thousands of robotic devices already being deployed, is robotics keeping up with ethics?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-08-01 Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 1 Robots are among us. They might be on their way in to childcare and aged care as silicon carers too. And, many thousands have now been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, with billions being invested in the development of entirely autonomous killing agents. Will they fight fairly? Could they be more ethical and humane than humans? Over a series of shows, Natasha Mitchell speaks to leading roboticists and thinkers about the brave new now.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-07-25 Madness, modernity and those 'nervous times': Vienna in 1900 Journey to Vienna at the turn of the 20th century and discover the `city of the psyche´ at the centre of Modernism. Described as 'nervous times', anxieties about the alienation of modern urban life inspired a cultural ferment between artists, architects and psychiatrists. From utopian visions of the asylum to the birth of the 'psychological portrait' and 'nerve art', the life of the mind lies at the heart of the story.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-07-18 Mind Over Matter at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas Is the human mind smart enough to ever understand itself? The size of a sesame seed, bees brains are brighter than you think - but do they have a mind? And, if we come up with an artificial intelligence to rival our own, how will we teach it right from wrong? Philosopher Colin Allen and neuroscientist Mandyam Srinivasan join Natasha Mitchell to talk mind, matter, moral machines and more at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
2009-07-11 The Mind of the Composer: Part 2 - Maurice Ravel [on air edition] + Unconditional Love [podcast edition] Acclaimed doctor and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston investigates the mind, music and dementia of composer Maurice Ravel. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast is another feature Love is a Battlefield: When Heidi and Rick Solomon adopted a son raised in the profoundly deprived conditions of a Romanian orphanage, his confronting behaviours sapped every ounce of their unconditional love.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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