Wednesday 28 December 2016
TED Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator
In one of the ten top TED talks of 2016 Tim Urban takes you on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window — and encourages you to think harder about what you're really procrastinating on, before you run out of time.
Anton Mesmer and Pseudoscience
In The Infinite Monkey Cage Christmas Special Brian Cox and Robin Ince discuss the Christmas ghost
story, and look at the Victorian obsession with the supernatural, how studying paranormal phenomenon went from a
genuine scientific endeavour, to the realms of pseudoscience.
Meanwhile BBC Radio 4 has Philip Ball telling the story of Anton Mesmer and the rise and fall of animal magnetism. He interviews Simon Shaffer, from Cambridge University, about the role of spectacle in science and medicine in the late 18th century and Richard Wiseman about the legacy of scientific scrutiny of the claims of parapsychology.
Meanwhile BBC Radio 4 has Philip Ball telling the story of Anton Mesmer and the rise and fall of animal magnetism. He interviews Simon Shaffer, from Cambridge University, about the role of spectacle in science and medicine in the late 18th century and Richard Wiseman about the legacy of scientific scrutiny of the claims of parapsychology.
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