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Making sense of noise: Part 1 of 2 - Back to school
5 juni 2010 · 30 min
The soundtrack to our lives seems to have got louder. Surviving the cacophony of city existence is hard enough, but what does all that racket do to the developing brain as it learns? Enter the Virtual Classroom to discover some unexpected lessons for contemporary schools. And next week, we're in pursuit of silence. Corinne Podger reports. Lees meer
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It's a Mindfield! All in the Mind at the 2010 Sydney Writers' Festival
29 mei 2010 · 30 min
Is neuroscience the new philosophy? Danish science writer and neurobiologist Lone Frank thinks the radical self-knowledge it offers us will help us transcend human nature. From the stage of the Sydney Writers' Festival, she dons The God Helmet, encounters her chemical self, and hesitates before having a brain scan. Lees meer
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Whistleblowing and the psyche: an anthropological perspective!
22 mei 2010 · 29 min
Bluebird is the ABC's new alternate reality (AR) game where you unfold the plot online. At its heart is a young scientist turned whistleblower, determined to stop a maverick entrepreneur's plan to geoengineer the global climate. But whistleblowing comes with huge psychological risks. An anthropologist and a sociologist offer a powerful perspective on how the self and psyche can be shredded in science. Lees meer
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Ageing Positive: HIV, dementia and the brain
15 mei 2010 · 29 min
They're vanguards of the virus - the first generation of HIV positive people to live long lives with the help of modern anti-retroviral drugs. The early days saw countless die too young, their brains ravaged by AIDS-related dementia. But now evidence suggests HIV prematurely ages the brain, despite the drugs. Lees meer
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Is ignorance bliss? The getting of wisdom
8 mei 2010 · 29 min
Four wise souls consider the making of a wise mind. Does knowing more necessarily make you happier? Can ignorance be bliss? 'Lateral thinker' Edward de Bono, Harvard neuroscientist Sara Lazar, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, and author and counsellor Petrea King join Natasha Mitchell at the Happiness & Its Causes conference. Lees meer
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The Protest Psychosis
1 mei 2010 · 29 min
Psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl treats people in the clinic whose lives are afflicted by severe psychosis. But he also documents an explosive 'other' history of schizophrenia, and what he sees as its transformation from a diagnosis of feminine docility or creative eccentricity, to one given to angry black men during the civil rights era. You'll never see medicine and the mind in quite the same light again. Lees meer
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The Brain on Trial
24 april 2010 · 30 min
The brain is on trial, and you be the judge. In a hypothetical murder case featuring a real judge, real neuroscientists and real lawyers - a brain scan image is presented as evidence. What unfolds could be coming to a courtroom near you. Stanford law professor Hank Greely is concerned neuroscience is being exploited by the law before it's fully baked. Lees meer
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Nature Deficit Disorder: the mind in urban combat
17 april 2010 · 44 min
Richard Louv argues we and our children are suffering a kind of cultural autism, a sensory deprivation which he provocatively calls 'Nature Deficit Disorder'. And with that, he's seeded a small revolution for change. Also, secret places - remember them when you were a kid? NB: The downloadable version features an extended interview this week. Lees meer
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You, the Scientist! Personal Construct Psychology
10 april 2010 · 30 min
What makes you 'You'? Personal Construct Psychology argues everyone constructs and tests their own internal models of reality, and that therapists shouldn't cast themselves as the all-knowing 'expert'. We are all scientists of the self. This week, confrontations with a shocking serial killer, the philosophical heritage of psychology and the moral limits of acceptance. Lees meer
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A matter of mind-sets? Religion and science - Part 2 of 2
3 april 2010 · 30 min
In an Easter special with a difference, renowned philosopher AC Grayling asks: Do science and religion represent fundamentally different mind-sets—different ways of thinking about the world? From the stage of the recent Global Atheist Convention, he makes the provocative case that popular efforts to reconcile the two are misguided. Lees meer
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A matter of mind-sets? Religion and science - Part 1 of 2
27 maart 2010 · 29 min
Do science and religion represent fundamentally different mind-sets? Physicist Richard Feynman said, 'Science is what we do to keep us from lying to ourselves'. From the Global Atheist Convention held in Australia this month, philosopher Peter Singer, biologist and popular science blogger PZ Myers, and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weigh in on matters of minds and faith. Next week, renowned philosopher AC Grayling. Lees meer
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Diving into dolphin heads: science, rights and ethics
20 maart 2010 · 30 min
The Cove took out this year's Oscar for best documentary for its confronting coverage of the annual dolphin culls in Taiji, Japan. Scientists argue dolphins have complex, large brains - second only to human brains relative to body weight. Join Natasha Mitchell with leading cetacean scientists and an ethicist for a tour of a waterborne 'alien intelligence'. What are the consequences for captivity, and a controversial call for 'personhood' status? Lees meer
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Archival Curiosities: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on death and dying.
13 maart 2010 · 29 min
Psychiatrist Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's book On Death and Dying in many ways transformed the way we publicly and privately talk about death and grief, and inspired the modern palliative care movement. From the depths of the ABC's rich archives comes this 1978 interview with Kubler-Ross. She died in 2004, and her ideas and legacy continue to provoke, and to court controversy. Lees meer
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Stressed out! The powerful biology of stress
6 maart 2010 · 32 min
A little tension keeps us on our toes - we're biologically primed for it. But 'toxic' stress makes us physically sick, and powerful research is now revealing its potent impact on our developing bodies and brains. Don't miss two world leaders transforming our understanding. Lees meer
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When Your Mind is Not Your Own: Community Treatment Orders
27 februari 2010 · 30 min
How do we balance human rights, social inclusion and risk when a mind goes off the rails? Is there value in enforced treatment and can it be justified?
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Brains meet machines
20 februari 2010 · 30 min
Just imagine. And then...a robotic arm moves, a switch is flicked, or an email opened. The power of thought has the potential to help those paralysed by spine injury to bypass their bodies. A world leader in brain-machine interfaces, neuroscientist John Donoghue, joins Natasha Mitchell to share the extraordinary highs, lows and the ethics of his cutting edge work. Lees meer
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Kay Redfield Jamison
13 februari 2010 · 30 min
Top clinical psychologist and psychiatry professor Kay Redfield Jamison took the world by storm with her book An Unquiet Mind. In it she revealed her own torrid experience of bipolar disorder, and a passionate life marred by mania and depression. She joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation to discuss her new memoir, Nothing Was the Same. Recounting two decades with her partner, leading schizophrenia researcher Richard Wyatt, who died in 2002, it's a story of deep love and deep loss. To her, grief and depression differ in profound ways. Lees meer
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Stem cells and brain tales
6 februari 2010 · 30 min
Acclaimed neuroscientist Fred Gage is a serial trailblazer. Decades of dogma were overturned when his team confirmed the adult brain continues to make new brain cells. Incredibly, now scientists can even turn skin cells into brain cells with a chemical push! But, if their potential to treat brain diseases or damage is to be realised, transplanted cells need to be able to call your brain home. Stanford biologist James Weimann has a major advance. Lees meer
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David Eagleman: The afterlife, synesthesia and other tales of the senses
30 januari 2010 · 30 min
Neuroscientist by day, novelist by night - David Eagleman has just written an extraordinary little novel about the afterlife. He's also a leading researcher in synesthesia, studying people who taste sounds, hear colours, and live in a remarkable world of sensory cross-talk. He joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation about life, death and the in-between. Lees meer
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Autism: genetics, early detection and the ethics of screening newborns
23 januari 2010 · 30 min
News of the largest studies on the genetics of autism to date is out, paving the way for genetic risk testing in the future. And, Australian research suggests autistic behaviours can be detected as early as eight months. So should we be screening newborns for neurological disorders like autism? The ethical debate unfolds on All in the Mind. Lees meer
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Dreams: the stuff memories are made of? (Part 2 of 2)
9 januari 2010 · 30 min
Dreams feel meaningful—drawn from a mishmash of content from our waking lives. But it's a hot debate among scientists, who are yet to confirm why we sleep, let alone dream. Neuroscientist Matthew Wilson's extraordinary experiments involve eavesdropping on the sleeping minds of rats. He proposes dreaming is central to how we remember and learn. Lees meer
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Dreams: the body alive! (Part 1 of 2)
2 januari 2010 · 30 min
Jungian psychoanalyst and psychotherapist Robert Bosnak is a dream worker. To him dreams are an ecosystem of imaginings—powerful bodily experiences populated by characters with their own intelligences. When you encounter the images of your dreaming mind do you find one Self, or many? And, next week, a leading neuroscientist probing the possible link between memory and dreaming. Lees meer
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The philosophy of good intentions
26 december 2009 · 30 min
Reading the minds of others can be darned hard. Are their intentions good, bad or indifferent? Whether we hold people accountable for their behaviour depends on the answer. Scientists probe questions like this through experiments. Philosophers traditionally appeal to intuition and argument. But now a young band of experimental philosophers are taking armchair philosophy to task, and digging for data. Lees meer
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Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 3 of 3
19 december 2009 · 30 min
His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell and leading scholars in a dialogue about science and the self. This week, founder of the field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace consider with him what it takes to flourish...really flourish...individually and collectively. Lees meer
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Dialogue with the Dalai Lama - Part 2 of 3
12 december 2009 · 30 min
His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell and leading scholars in a dialogue about science, wellbeing and our moral minds. This week Harvard evolutionary biologist and author of Moral Minds, Marc Hauser, asks - does biology constrain our mind's potential and our moral capacity? Is there a place for moral outrage? Next week, founder of the field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace join the fray. Lees meer
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Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Part 1
5 december 2009 · 29 min
From the stage of the 2009 Mind and Its Potential conference, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind's Natasha Mitchell in an extended conversation about the mind, science and much else. And, joining the dialogue over coming weeks is the founder of the field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, leading Harvard evolutionary biologist Marc Hauser, and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace Lees meer
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Dive into your Gene Pool!
28 november 2009 · 30 min
Evolution, mutation and transformation -- what do these themes evoke for you? Genes mutate, but so do bodies, brains and cultures. Celebrate the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and dive into the Gene Pool. We invited you to upload sounds, stories, and images to Radio National's social media site, Pool (http://pool.org.au), and to mutate and remix those of others. Catch All in the Mind's remix of your remixes! Lees meer
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Climate change and the psyche
21 november 2009 · 30 min
In his new book, Why We Disagree About Climate Change, top British climate scientist Mike Hulme wants to understand climate change as a psychological and cultural force. Anthropologist Jonathan Marshall has just edited a provocative collection of Jungian perspectives on climate change. They join Natasha Mitchell to discuss mythology, mental ecology and a changing climate. Lees meer
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Michael Gazzaniga: Split brains and other heady tales (highlight from the archives)
14 november 2009 · 30 min
Beyond the hype of left brain versus right brain lies the work of acclaimed neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga. His career was forged in the lab of Nobel laureate Roger Sperry, and together their trailblazing experiments have illuminated the differences between the brain's two hemispheres. Today he's on the US President's Bioethics Council, heads up a major project on neuroscience and the law, and is a prolific writer of popular neuroscience. Lees meer
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The secret life of bacteria - small, smart and thoughtful! [Highlight from the archive]
7 november 2009 · 30 min
We can't survive without them -- and we've long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own. Predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory -- Jules Verne eat your heart out -- Natasha Mitchell takes you on a strange adventure into the secret world of microbial mentality. Lees meer
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The eyes have it! Deep time and future vision
31 oktober 2009 · 30 min
Some call the eyes the window on the soul. Trevor Lamb has been gazing into the eyes of living fossil 'fishy' beings, and deep into evolutionary time to unravel the beginnings of our incredible seeing organ. And what about its future? A myopia explosion in East Asian cities has folk worried, and there's good evidence for a surprising cause. Lees meer
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Addiction, free will and self control
24 oktober 2009 · 30 min
Heard the one about the psychiatrist, the Supreme Court judge and the philosopher who walked in to a radio studio...? Join Natasha Mitchell and guests in a roundtable interrogation of how the brain sciences are changing our understanding of addiction, and the powerful consequences for notions of free will, responsibility and culpability. Lees meer
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Hearing Voices: stories from the coalface
17 oktober 2009 · 30 min
Mel was dux of her high school with bright prospects. At 25, she needs 24-hour family care, persecuted by a violent voice in her head who she calls Ron. Journalist Tom Tilley takes us to meet Mel and her family for a rare, raw and intimate insight into the experience of hearing voices; and reports on current uncertainty over causes and treatments. Lees meer
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You are not a self! Bodies, brains and the nature of consciousness
10 oktober 2009 · 30 min
German philosopher of mind Thomas Metzinger is one of the world's top researchers on consciousness, instrumental in its renaissance as a respectable problem for scientific enquiry. From out-of-body experiences to lucid dreaming, anarchic hand syndrome to phantom limbs, his investigations have taken him to places few dare to go. Be spooked, bewildered and amazed. Lees meer
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'It takes a village': the evolution of human nature
3 oktober 2009 · 30 min
What most distinguishes us from other apes? Our naked flesh? Language? Our empathic ways? Acclaimed anthropologist and sociobiologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has spent her long research career upending assumptions about sex, reproduction and the evolution of human nature. She joins Natasha Mitchell to discuss her new book Mothers and Others, and why it took a village to generate a big brained human child. Lees meer
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Dark Science: Pushing the limits of fear, flesh, pain and your psyche.
26 september 2009 · 30 min
Join us at the Dark Science night at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum for a spectacle of side show science and (almost) R-rated research. Suspension artists hang from hooks through their flesh, tattoo artists ply their wares, and don't miss the spiders and coffins too - it's the science of fear and pain as you never heard it before Lees meer
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The coming of 'The Singularity'...or not?
19 september 2009 · 30 min
Imagine a future where computers exceed our own intelligence; where problem solving is no longer limited by human thinking -- what then? It's a moment in technological time some call 'The Singularity'. But how much is technological reality, and how much fantasy? Science writer Mike McRae catches up with AI researchers and sci-fi writers to ponder the possibilities and probabilities. Lees meer
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Sex, Knowledge and Science (Adelaide Festival of Ideas)
12 september 2009 · 30 min
Doing science has no room for gender and agendas, right? It's all about the objective pursuit of facts and truths about nature. Or is it? Acclaimed historian of science Londa Schiebinger, and top philosophers Simon Blackburn and Karen Green join Natasha Mitchell to debate the making of modern science, beards, breasts and how we came to be called mammals! Lees meer
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Psychogeography: discovering the mental terrain of the city
5 september 2009 · 29 min
All in the Mind takes you on an extraordinarily ordinary journey across the mental and physical terrain of a big city. For many the ideal method of urban travel is straight out of Star Trek—teleporting. But in the 21st century city there are flaneurs and commuters savouring their journeys, on foot and by bike. They're taking in the smells and sounds of back alleys, recalling emotional memories at intersections and celebrating stacks of shipping containers. Join us on a 'psychogeographical' adventure, and discover the impact of the city on your psyche. Lees meer
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Minds on the Margins
29 augustus 2009 · 30 min
A life on the streets or behind bars isn't what we hope for our children. What leads them there? Mental illness? Family breakdown? Economic hardship? Two groundbreaking studies are fundamentally challenging the assumptions we make about our most marginalised, and the state of their mind. Lees meer
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Many Selves, One Body: Dissociation and early trauma
22 augustus 2009 · 30 min
We all dissociate to a degree—compartmentalising major traumatic experiences in our psyche to protect ourselves. But Dissociation Identity Disorder is the extreme end, where a person might present multiple selves or 'alters' to the world without fully knowing it—swapping clothes, life histories and personalities each time they 'switch'. Don't miss this firsthand account. Lees meer
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Art on the Mind: Neuroesthetics, and the artist as brain scientist!
15 augustus 2009 · 30 min
Acclaimed neuroscientist Semir Zeki pioneered the field of neuroesthetics to probe the biological basis of the aesthetic experience, art, literature, love and beauty. He thinks scientists have lots to learn about the brain from the works of visual artists and romantic literature. And visit London's Hayward Gallery, where the Walking in My Mind exhibition has been described as a 'vast humming cranium' as artists unearth their creative process through vast installations. Lees meer
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Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 2
8 augustus 2009 · 29 min
The theatre of war is changing, radically. With a push towards autonomous, robotic devices capable of killing - should the Laws of War change? One artificial intelligence leader argues machines could be more ethical and humane than humans in the battlefield. But, with thousands of robotic devices already being deployed, is robotics keeping up with ethics? Lees meer
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Do you read me HAL? Robot wars, moral machines and silicon that cares - Part 1
1 augustus 2009 · 30 min
Robots are among us. They might be on their way in to childcare and aged care as silicon carers too. Will the 'digital natives' born today be more comfortable with that prospect? And, many thousands have now been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, with billions being invested in the development of fully autonomous killing agents. Will they fight fairly? Could they be more ethical and humane than humans? Over a series of shows, Natasha Mitchell speaks to leading roboticists and thinkers about the brave new now. Lees meer
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Madness, modernity and those 'nervous times': Vienna in 1900
25 juli 2009 · 29 min
Journey to Vienna at the turn of the 20th century and discover the 'city of the psyche' at the centre of Modernism. Described as 'nervous times', anxieties about the alienation of modern urban life inspired a cultural ferment between artists, architects and psychiatrists. From utopian visions of the asylum to the birth of the 'psychological portrait' and 'nerve art', the life of the mind lies at the heart of the story. Image gallery Lees meer
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Mind Over Matter at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas
18 juli 2009 · 30 min
Is the human mind smart enough to ever understand itself? The size of a sesame seed, bees brains are brighter than you think - but do they have a mind? And, if we come up with an artificial intelligence to rival our own, how will we teach it right from wrong? Philosopher Colin Allen and neuroscientist Mandyam Srinivasan join Natasha Mitchell to talk mind, matter, moral machines and more at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. Lees meer
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The Mind of the Composer: Part 2 - Maurice Ravel [on air edition] + Unconditional Love [podcast edition]
11 juli 2009 · 30 min
Acclaimed doctor and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston investigates the mind, music and dementia of composer Maurice Ravel. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast is another feature Love is a Battlefield: When Heidi and Rick Solomon adopted a son raised in the profoundly deprived conditions of a Romanian orphanage, his confronting behaviours sapped every ounce of their unconditional love. Lees meer
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The Mind of the Composer Part 1: Robert Schumann [on-air edition] + The Moral Mind [podcast edition]
4 juli 2009 · 30 min
Acclaimed doctor and broadcaster Lord Robert Winston excavates the music and mind of composer Robert Schumann, to see if there was a relationship between the two. Schumann died at just 46 in a mental asylum, with speculation today that he had bipolar disorder. For copyright reasons, this week's podcast is an alternative from our archives, The Moral Mind. Lees meer
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Love is a battlefield: parenting an autistic child
27 juni 2009 · 30 min
Parents of a severely autistic child can be pushed to breaking point. Do we have unrealistic expectations of what they should be capable of? David and Karen Royko came to make an impossible decision about their son Ben, and share their story with candour and openness. Lees meer
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David Eagleman: The afterlife, synesthesia and other tales of the senses
20 juni 2009 · 30 min
Neuroscientist by day, novelist by night - David Eagleman has just written an extraordinary little novel about the afterlife. He's also a leading researcher in synesthesia, studying people who taste sounds, hear colours, and live in a remarkable world of sensory cross-talk. He joins Natasha Mitchell in conversation about life, death and the in-between. Lees meer