BLOG PICTURE SCIENCE http://radio.seti.org/blog Tue, 15 May 2012 17:04:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Big Picture Science – Skeptic Check: Forget With the Program http://radio.seti.org/blog/2012/05/big-picture-science-skeptic-check-forget-with-the-program/ http://radio.seti.org/blog/2012/05/big-picture-science-skeptic-check-forget-with-the-program/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 17:04:51 +0000 Gary Niederhoff http://radio.seti.org/blog/?p=2626









Just remember this: memory is like Swiss cheese. Even our recollection of dramatic events that seem to sear their images directly onto our brain turn out to be riddled with errors. Discover the reliability of these emotional “flashbulb” memories.

Also, a judge questions the utility of eyewitness testimony in court. And, don’t blame Google for destroying your powers of recall! Socrates thought the same thing about the written word.

Plus, Brains on Vacation!

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1: Memory Experiment part 1
Part 2: Brains on Vacation
Part 3: Fallibility of Memory
Part 4: Memory Experiment part 2
Part 5: Eyewitness Memory
Part 6: Google and Memory

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Part 6 of Skeptic Check: Forget With the Program, featuring Betsy Sparrow, Psychologist, Columbia University, on how the use of internet search engines poses no more threat to our memory than the reference books of yore.
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Part 5 of Skeptic Check: Forget With the Program, featuring Ronald Reinstein, former judge on the Superior Court of Arizona and judicial consultant for the Arizona Supreme Court, on the use of witness testimony in court cases.
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Part 4 of Skeptic Check: Forget With the Program, featuring the thrilling conclusion to Molly’s experiment on her unwitting colleagues.
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Part 3 of Skeptic Check: Forget With the Program, featuring Craig Stark, Neurobiologist, Director for the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at Univeristy of California, Irvine, on the fallibility of our alleged “flashbulb memory”.
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Part 2 of Skeptic Check: Forget With the Program, featuring Phil Plait, keeper of Discover Magazine’s badastronomy blog, on the use of anti-vaccination material as in-flight entertainment.
(TRT 5:47)

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Part 1 of Skeptic Check: Forget With the Program, featuring a memory experiment Molly conducted, using her unwitting colleagues as test subjects.
(TRT 3:59)

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Random is as random does… makes sense doesn’t even that anyway in tune hear to randomness how lives rules.

Brain chaos the drives, restoration role of help insight ecology may into randomness the, numbers sense of make statistics can’t why we or, ants not seem of erratic behavior why the may but is.

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1: Our Random Lives
Part 2: Biology Soup
Part 3: Evolutionary Serendipity
Part 4: Ant Organization
Part 5: Neurological Chaos

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Part 5 of That’s So Random, featuring John Beggs, physicist, Indiana University at Bloomington, on the random firing of neurons in the human brain.
(TRT 10:57)

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Part 4 of That’s So Random, featuring Deborah Gordon, biologist, Stanford University, on the completely non-random behavior of ants.
(TRT 9:28)

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