The Amazing Human Body

Episode 14 A discovery that has been made within a day or two of this reaching the podcast could change the way we look at our own urine. Scientists have been able to manipulate urine into neurons through lab tests. The target group for these studies have been Alzheimer patience and the results have truly been mind blowing. This could mean we have a cure for the mind-eating decease within years... Exciting. [email protected]

Episode 16 Many experts disagree on the reason for dreams. Some say It's a way for the brain to work through our daily life, much like a coping mechanism. Others say that it's strictly random impulses from the brain, but so far we just don't know for certain. 3,000 years ago the Egyptians thought dreams could be interpreted into telling the future, though this is still something that is ever present in our society, it is also looked down upon in the scientific community as something irrational. [email protected]

Episode 11 The fourth and final Lobe in our brain is the The Occipital Lobe. It almost exclusively deals with our sight and without it we are all blind. Because we humans use our seeing as our premium sense, the Occopital Lobe takes up a fairly large amount of our brain- nearly 50% [email protected]

Episode 10 The Parietal Lobe is situated just on top of the Temporal Lobe and it's functions are amazing! Being in charge of integrating sensory functions inside the body, the Parietal Lobes main objective is to manipulate the muscles of our body, Making us move! [email protected]

Episode 22 No matter how much computers and smart-phones want you to believe it, you can probably only do one thing at a time. Multi-tasking is something only 2.5% of the population can actually do without seeing a degradation in performance. These people are called super-taskers. "Hang-on", I hear you say, "I can drive and talk at the same time". Yes, that's true! but what you are actually doing is putting you driving "on hold" by letting your unconsciousness do it for you. Try instead driving though a battlefield with bombs going off and having an existential conversation about life. [email protected]