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Why your brain might be wired for extremism	Instant Genius	40:08
How working too hard is damaging your health and productivity	Instant Genius	30:24
How the maths of sameness and difference can change the way you view the world	Instant Genius	31:51
Busting the biggest weight loss myths	Instant Genius	46:49
Better Sleep: The hidden power of napping	Instant Genius	24:13
The new science of music as medicine	Instant Genius	31:22
Better Sleep: How psychology can help you beat insomnia	Instant Genius	33:48
How your brain builds your picture of reality	Instant Genius	33:40
Better Sleep: How snoring affects our health	Instant Genius	33:56
The science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons	Instant Genius	41:16
Better Sleep: The deep connection between sleep and memory	Instant Genius	28:07
How to harness the healing power of the body’s largest nerve	Instant Genius	42:44
The evolution of music, its impact on human culture and its future	Instant Genius	31:26
Why we should rethink our relationship with alcohol	Instant Genius	40:55
Don't miss the upcoming Better Sleep miniseries!	Instant Genius	00:46
How humans may soon become an interplanetary species	Instant Genius	38:28
The listening hacks that can transform your health	Instant Genius	36:48
How new research is combatting Alzheimer’s disease	Instant Genius	35:23
How microbes are vital for life on Earth, and may even help save the planet	Instant Genius	29:06
How climate change is disrupting nature’s ancient symbiotic relationships	Instant Genius	33:43
How catastrophes have shaped the world as we know it	Instant Genius	38:23
How mathematics shapes human creativity	Instant Genius	35:11
How climate change impacts the world’s most vulnerable people	Instant Genius	32:24
How future materials will help save the planet	Instant Genius	37:35
How we can engineer humans for life beyond Earth	Instant Genius	38:08
What contraception is doing to our bodies – and what we’ll use in future	Instant Genius	42:33
How to hack your brain to make better decisions	Instant Genius	37:22
How to actually see the Northern lights	Instant Genius	32:01
Why a healthy ocean is vital for the survival of the human race and planet Earth	Instant Genius	33:45
Food science: Why fermentation is the future of food	Instant Genius	25:21
The science behind the stunning phenomenon of the Northern Lights	Instant Genius	28:43
Food Science: How to become an expert baker through science	Instant Genius	32:28
The biggest unsolved mysteries of the quantum realm	Instant Genius	27:13
Food Science: The fascinating science of cheesemaking	Instant Genius	36:49
How birds’ bizarre mating rituals have played a key role in their evolution	Instant Genius	34:05
Food Science: How eating chocolate boosts your brain, heart and gut health	Instant Genius	25:26
Why OCD is a serious, debilitating mental condition, not just a need for cleanliness or order	Instant Genius	29:22
How truth and honesty are key to tackling the climate crisis	Instant Genius	34:09
How to combat uncertainty in a post-truth world	Instant Genius	29:31
How AI is helping us to understand how our brains learn	Instant Genius	26:55

Why your brain might be wired for extremism

Instant Genius

40:08

How working too hard is damaging your health and productivity

Instant Genius

30:24

How the maths of sameness and difference can change the way you view the world

Instant Genius

31:51

Busting the biggest weight loss myths

Instant Genius

46:49