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How Plants Domesticated Humans – AMNH SciCafe
Humans have domesticated plants and animals for agriculture for thousands of years. What is less well-known is that plants and the chemicals they produce for defense have also had a significant effect on human biology and evolution. Join anthropologist Fatimah … Continue reading
GINGER IS WEIRD – All about the edible seeds, flowers, rhizomes and FRUIT of gingers
Episode: 779 Gingers Species: Many Location: Noumea New Caledonia & NYC USA More ginger episodes: Black Cardamom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyfVE… Myoga ginger: https://youtu.be/S26ibPNa56g Madagascar Wild Ginger: https://youtu.be/X_Q0riMQfv8 Mystery ginger from Borneo: https://youtu.be/KOXJ8hIAXmw Torch Ginger: https://youtu.be/YFepoZOJ3Oc Thanks to Vincent at @fruitaddict for showing … Continue reading
Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain – Rupert Sheldrake
In this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception. Rupert has designed an app to enable … Continue reading
The Rare Disorder That Turns Everyone Else Into Demons
[….] Prosopometamorphopsia is an extremely rare disorder of facial processing that makes other people’s faces look demonic or seem to melt. But in the process of treating these people, we can also learn how our brain understands what a face … Continue reading
