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Dec 2024
47m 53s

Your Brain Doesn’t Work the Way You Thin...

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David Eagleman upends myths and describes the vast possibilities of a brainscape that even neuroscientists are only beginning to understand. Steve Levitt interviews him in this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire. 
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