What’s consciousness? And why does weed make it so much better?
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05/10/21 • 33 min
In our 4/20 special, Matt and Brandon discuss how weed affects your perception of the world around you—how does the brain work and how could a chemical alter that? We also get into a host of other topics, like what best rhymes with “New Year’s”, how to pronounce “Alzheimer’s”, and the different kinds of memory a computer uses. And you thought we were exaggerating when we said it was a special episode...
For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true... after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:
- Crash Course video on synapses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VitFvNvRIIY
- Crash Course video on cognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-sVnmmw6WY
- SciShow video on THC and the brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJzCdFlpyQ
Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).
In our 4/20 special, Matt and Brandon discuss how weed affects your perception of the world around you—how does the brain work and how could a chemical alter that? We also get into a host of other topics, like what best rhymes with “New Year’s”, how to pronounce “Alzheimer’s”, and the different kinds of memory a computer uses. And you thought we were exaggerating when we said it was a special episode...
For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true... after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:
- Crash Course video on synapses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VitFvNvRIIY
- Crash Course video on cognition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-sVnmmw6WY
- SciShow video on THC and the brain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsJzCdFlpyQ
Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).
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For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true... after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out PBS’s Eons playlist about human evolution: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKjJE86mQRtsCZxHWBzDajFo-YQHw2oAO.
Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).
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For more episodes of scHIGHence, visit our website at www.buzzsprout.com/1510018. Note that we do not guarantee that any of the facts we share on this podcast are 100% true... after all, we are high. For more on this topic from a source that you can trust, check out these YouTube videos:
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Theme song by Alexander Nakarada, who you can find on twitter (twitter.com/thenakarada) and Patreon (www.patreon.com/anakarada).
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