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If you are a movie goer, you’ve probably noticed that many major movies released are now available to watch in 3D. The technology isn’t new; in fact, filmmakers have been using and perfecting 3D viewing since the 1920s. If you love 3D movies then you don’t want to miss this episode of Brain Games, which…
Every episode of Brain Games explores the surprising ways our brains work to analyze our surroundings and help us thrive in our world. There are many aspects of brain functions that are fascinating and effective, but out of our control. However, the most surprising thing about our brains may be their ability to change. There…
In this week’s episode of Brain Games, host Jason Silva – with help from Yale professor and decision-making expert Dr. Daylian Cain – reveals the secrets behind decision making. Do you lean toward logic or intuition when it’s time to make a choice? Start by taking the challenge to find out. If you don’t like your results,…
In this week’s episode of Brain Games the team explores the things we think we see. Our brain processes an amazing amount of information and sometimes it takes short cuts to make sense of our world. This means that what you perceive may be different from what you are actually viewing. When you watch the…
Men and women are wired differently and on this week’s episode of Brain Games, Jason Silva explores the differences between men and women when there is a meeting of minds. Some scientists theorize that the male and female minds are inherently different not to make life more difficult, but in order to allow genders to…
Bet you could explain something as basic as how a zipper works? Or correctly draw something as simple as a bicycle? If you said yes, you likely bet wrong… but don’t worry it’s not just you! When you stop and think about it, you’re probably not that aware of all of the things you don’t…
In this week’s episode of Brain Games, Jason Silva explores the fascinating science of persuasion. Marketers, salesmen and con men know that if you want someone to say “yes” that you’ll have a better chance if you use persuasion techniques. It turns out that by exposing people to specific stimuli you can prime their brains…
On Brain Games Jason Silva looks at an amazing array of brain functions and the undeniably bizarre way our minds work. While the exercises and revelations on the show may sometimes border on unbelievable, they are all real and understanding them may help your mind function more efficiently. Even better, scientists are constantly discovering new…
In Brain Games: Motion Commotion, host Jason Silva explores the many ways our brain makes the world around us move. Sometimes, motion is nothing more than a trick of your mind. In fact, some of the most common motions in our life are just an illusion. Here are three common things that aren’t moving…
You’re pretty sharp and there isn’t a whole lot that gets by you. You are focused and pride yourself on your attention to details. While others are lost in their own head, you are noticing exactly what is going on around you. Or are you? In Brain Games: Focus Pocus host, Jason Silva explores the…
Brain Games returns this season with twelve new episodes that reveal the inner-workings of your brain. You will be astounded by the way your mind works… and sometimes doesn’t work. The brain is incredibly complicated and despite the fact that it has fascinated scientists for as long as there have been scientists, there is still…
Simple video games have been around since 1947, but it was in the 1980s that video games truly arrived on the market. When you think of 80s arcade video games, Pac-Man is probably the first game that comes to mind. Pac-Man fever swept the nation, partially because it was a video game that girls loved…
Are you a sporto, headbanger, geek, wasteoid, preppy or dweeb? Not sure? Then you probably don’t remember or haven’t learned how to speak 80s lingo. If you need to freshen up for your next 80s party, you’re in luck. Here’s a quick guide to communicate. Not impressed? Let’s say you show up at the party…
We often think of the 80s as a time of excess, florescent clothes and silly moments. The 80s were full of fun-loving wise-cracking ne’re-do-wells. It was also the beginning of the future and a great many advances to come. In National Geographic’s six-part series, The 80s: The Decade that Made Us, some of the most…
Let’s say Marty McFly has just pulled up in his DeLorean and he’s taking you on leisurely drive through the 80s. If you want to hang with the cool kids you better grab your backpack and load up the appropriate 80s gear or at least know it when you see it. The 80s are a…
When you ask shelters what the most common reasons dogs are relinquished, you might be surprised to discover that behavior problems are not at the top of the list. The reality is that most dogs are relinquished as a result of life changes. There was a time when divorce was uncommon, the economy was more…
Richard T. Kight, a Brigadier General who lived from 1913 – 2001 penned the code of an air rescueman. He wrote, “It is my duty as an Air Rescueman to save lives and to aid the injured. I will be prepared at all times to perform my assigned duties quickly and efficiently, placing these duties…
Cesar Millan often says, “A breed is like a suit of clothes, it doesn’t tell you anything about the dog inside.” In Leader of the Pack, Cesar works to rehabilitate dogs and train people, which is the best way to help others understand that it isn’t any particular breed that causes problems, but the way…
Kingdom of the Oceans investigates a variety of animals in the ocean big and small. The ocean is home to a multitude of tiny beautiful creatures often hidden away and difficult to find. In Kingdom of the Oceans the cameras turn not just on the small and overlooked creatures, but the large and difficult to…
There are so many plants and animals to explore under the sea and none of them are boring. Life on the sand and in the waves has forced species to evolve in beautiful and bizarre ways to ensure their survival. Their natural history and alien shapes are never dull and sometimes even astonishing. In the…
In Leader of the Pack, Cesar Milan is hoping to find a home for dogs that are deemed unadoptable. Not just any a home, but one in which they can thrive. In fact, there are thousands of dogs in shelters and rescues who are incredibly difficult to adopt out even without behavior problems. Next time…
In Kingdom of Oceans: Fire and Ice viewers have the opportunity to examine the paradox of whales, penguins, iguanas and dolphins. These are all animal which inherited a burdensome legacy from their land-dwelling ancestors: they must breathe in open air. When an animal finds its food in the ocean waters, coming up for air can…
In the new series Kingdom of the Oceans, viewers explore the world underwater and discover creatures and behaviors they may have never seen before. Nearly three quarters of our planet lies under water and there is a tremendous amount of life to discover and much of it is strange and surprising, such as the coral…
In Cesar Millan’s Leader of the Pack dogs that have been deemed impossible to place are given a new life with a family that is just the right fit to manage the dog’s problem behaviors. However, there are hundreds of thousands of other dogs that need good homes and guidance to live happily ever after.…
In Cesar Millan’s show Leader of the Pack, Cesar works to find homeless dogs with behavioral problems the best family to help individual dogs. Adoption is a wonderful way to give homeless dogs a second chance and a great way for individuals to help solve an international problem at a local level. The problem of…
