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Conversations on consciousness: Sue Blackmore interviews Dan Dennett (MP3), VS Ramachandran (MP3), and Francis Crick (MP3).

IQ: the brilliant idea that failed (book review).

The spinning silhouette optical illusion - worth checking out. Brief discussion at Mind Hacks about how it might work.

July 24 edition of BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind featuring BPS President Pam Maras discussing the statutory regulation of psychologists, plus the intoxication of power, and more.

Who's in charge? When the unity of self breaks down. Hilarious.




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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links. New brains exhibition (free entry) at London's Wellcome Collection "Brains: The Mind as Matter" has now opened. Includes samples from Albert Einstein's brain. There's a new pictorial...

- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: Time magazine describes what it's like for the siblings of children with autism. Bad Science on how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems (scroll down for link to MP3 audio file)....

- Elsewhere
Psychology-related radio clips, podcasts, magazine features and more, for when you've had enough of journal articles: ABC Radio's All in the Mind series has continued with programmes on panic, blindness and the brain, and the neurobiology of suicide...

- Neuroscience-of-orgasm Studies And The Secret Life Of The Brain; Dementia, Too
The Mind Hacks blog crew posted two posts today that provide links to an Australian radio show’s detailed look at recent neuroscientific studies of orgasm and to content and visual segments from the PBS series The Secret Life of the Brain which aired...

- Daniel Dennett Podcast On Public Radio’s Tech Nation
From their podcast entry in iTunes, "Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Daniel Dennett Daniel Dennett, professor of philosophy at Tufts University and author of Breaking the Spell -- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon. He looks at the emergence of religion throughout...



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