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The bizarre phenomena that medicine struggles to explain | David Linden: Full Interview
Neuroscience reveals the profound mind-body connection, explaining phenomena from voodoo death to the placebo effect, and how our brain's predictive nature influences health and our perception of mortality.
The deep mystery physicists call “the problem of time” | Jim Al-Khalili: Full Interview
Physicist Jim Al-Khalili explores the problem of time, distinguishing between psychological and physical time. He delves into relativity's implications for time dilation and gravity, the concept of the block universe, and the thermodynamic arrow of time, questioning time's fundamental nature.