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Brain Games Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2014 - 2014
Episode 1
Compassion
Mon, Jul 14, 201422 mins
Join host Jason Silva in interactive games and experiments to explore your brain's capacity for compassion. Discover if you were born naughty or nice and explore the chances of finding a psychopath among your family and friends.
Episode 2
Addiction
Mon, Jul 14, 201422 mins
Learn all about addictions and why some can actually be good for you. Find out why you can't stop checking your phone and why that awful pop song gets stuck in your head. And, discover one of the most addictive sounds in the world.
Episode 3
Language
Mon, Jul 21, 201421 mins
Discover how language is the closest thing humans have to telepathy and how you communicate without words every day. Guest Sri Sarma, a biomedical-engineer from Johns Hopkins University, leads a discovery of language and how humans create meaning.
Episode 4
Risk
Mon, Jul 21, 201422 mins
Nearly every choice you make involves some calculated risk. Explore how your brain evaluates risk in everyday situations and discover why we're all born as risk-takers. Learn to assess risk like your life depends on it, because it does.
Episode 5
Battle of the Sexes II
Mon, Jul 28, 201422 mins
Find out how the male brain and female brain differ when they are pitted against each other in games and experiments. Learn which gender is victorious in the battle of the sexes.
Episode 6
Superstitions
Mon, Jul 28, 201422 mins
Learn about your superstition and why humans believe in things that have no basis in reality. Discover why your brain may be hardwired to be superstitious and if it's possible to read minds.
Episode 7
Food
Mon, Aug 4, 201422 mins
Discover the brain's role in your choice of food and what makes you hungry. Through interactive games and experiments, you will learn why you overeat and whether taking comfort in comfort food is good for you.
Episode 8
Anger
Mon, Aug 11, 201422 mins
What if getting angry had less to do with what's going on around you, and more to do with what's going on inside your brain? Explore why your brain gets angry and what you can do about it.
Episode 9
Patterns
Mon, Aug 18, 201422 mins
Have you ever noticed that life is a series of routines, done in the same order, day after day? Whether you realize it or not, your daily routine is really a pattern. Learn how, when processing the world, your brain is always filling in the blanks.
Episode 10
Intuition
Mon, Aug 25, 201421 mins
The power of intuition--when you know something to be true without knowing why--is one of the mind's greatest mysteries. Test your intuition and learn how your brain makes decisions without you having to think about it.
Episode 11
Mind vs. Body
Fri, Sep 5, 201425 mins
Compilation episode.
Episode 12
Brain Trust
Fri, Sep 5, 2014
Compilation episode.