54 min listen
Aware Am I?
ratings:
Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Feb 13, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
ENCORE Humans are pleasure-seekers – from food to sex to fine art. But do we know why we crave what we do? Discover the surprising motivation behind our desires. Also, why our hedonistic cousins, the bonobos, may hold the secret to world peace.
Plus, self-awareness in monkeys: can they really pass the mirror test? Can bacteria, for that matter? Nope! But since you are, cell for cell, more microbe than human, you’ll want to know just how cognitively aware these critters are.
Guests:
Paul Bloom - Psychologist at Yale University and author of How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Julie Neiworth - Psychologist, Carleton College
Vanessa Woods - Research scientist at Duke University and author of Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo. Find out more about helping bonobos.
Jim Shapiro - Bacterial geneticist, University of Chicago
First aired November 1, 2010.
Descripción en español
Plus, self-awareness in monkeys: can they really pass the mirror test? Can bacteria, for that matter? Nope! But since you are, cell for cell, more microbe than human, you’ll want to know just how cognitively aware these critters are.
Guests:
Paul Bloom - Psychologist at Yale University and author of How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Julie Neiworth - Psychologist, Carleton College
Vanessa Woods - Research scientist at Duke University and author of Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo. Find out more about helping bonobos.
Jim Shapiro - Bacterial geneticist, University of Chicago
First aired November 1, 2010.
Descripción en español
Released:
Feb 13, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Grave Matters: ENCORE We could choose not to pay income tax and suffer the consequences. But we can’t avoid death. The biological functions of all organisms eventually cease. But why should this be? Find out why animals die and meet one creature that is... by Big Picture Science