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Jul 2024
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Ep69 "Why do you see something everywher...

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What does the Baader-Meinhof Group, a West German terrorist group from the 1970s, have to do with  the front of your brain, attention, salience, and synchronicity? And why might you soon hear about the Baader-Meinhof Group again, not for political reasons, but for reasons to do with your own neural networks? Join Eagleman for a dive into how we take in the world around us -- and how we get fooled about the frequencies of events.

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