Episode notes

Listen in as Derk picks Charles’ brain about the 10% myth, a man who’s been working on the railroad and ethical dilemmas about uncontrollable rage. This rage wasn’t even caused by bad puns.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes mention of traumatic head injuries, mass shooting, and how sexual assault is handled by the U.S. justice system.

Citations:

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/redesign/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/brain-myth.pdf

https://www.verywellmind.com/phineas-gage-2795244#toc-why-is-phineas-gage-important-to-psychology

https://asklib.hms.harvard.edu/faq/153359

Theme music by Kevin MacLeod and Bryan Teoh, with sound effects by freesound_community, Samuel F. Johanns, Alexander Jauk, dripPC, and Jurij from Pixabay

Keywords

science

discussion

common sense

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knowledge

science literacy

counter sense

brains

brain damage

phineas gage

tbi

traumatic brain injury

change in personality

legal defense

myth

10% of brain