Episode 732: Anakin, Get the Onion Rings!
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the phenomenon of “manifesting,” and the relationship between circumstances, outcomes, and experience.
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Cognitive Science on Overthinking It
Episode 557: Pizzeria Quattro
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle algorithms, automated recommendation, Bayesian statistics, and whether to pass up a delicious cinnamon roll.
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Silent Star, Surfer, Spy: Jean Dujardin and Characters About Characters
This Sunday, Jean Dujardin won the Best Actor Oscar for the role of Georg Valentin in The Artist, playing a charismatic silent movie actor incapable of coping with the world of sound. Intellectually motivated movies about movies tend to punch … Continued
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The Neuroscience of Consciousness in Battlestar: Galactica
Part Two in a continuing series, digging into BSG’s notions of consciousness.
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The Hipster and the Hippocampus
Why the reason you like your Thundercats shirt now is fundamentally different from why you liked your Thundercats shirt in 2002. Plus: Why ’90s techno will never die.