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June 2007

Who Am I?

Sunday, June 24, 2007

The "mind" and "self" were formerly the domain of philosophers and priests. Today, it’s neurologists who, armed with giant magnets, are asking the big questions, like "How does the brain make me?" We stare into the mirror with Dr. Julian Keenan, reflect on the illusion of self-hood with British neurologist Paul Broks, contemplate the evolution of consciousness with Dr. V. S. Ramachandran. Also, the story of woman who one day woke up as a completely different person.


Mortality

Friday, June 15, 2007

Is death a fact of life or a disease that can be cured (as some scientists claim)? We filter the modern search for the fountain of youth through personal stories of witnessing death...the death of a cell, the death of a loved one...and the aging of a society.

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Memory and Forgetting

Friday, June 08, 2007

According to the latest research, remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. It’s easy come, easy go as we learn how true memories can be obliterated and false ones added. And Oliver Sacks joins us to tell the story of an amnesiac whose love for his wife and music transcend his 7 second memory.


Zoos

Friday, June 01, 2007

In a cruel trick of evolution, humans can stand just three feet from a ferocious animal and still be perfectly safe. What's with our need to get close to "wildness"? We examine where we stand in this paradox, starting with the Romans and ending in the wilds of Belize, staring into the eyes of wild jaguar.