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The buy button—Series 8
How advertisers are trying to use neuroscientific techniques to hack our brains.
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How to memorise anything—Series 8
How the world of 'memory sports' was rocked by a group of North Korean teenage girls.
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Holy relics—Series 8
You can buy a piece of the cross Jesus died on for 拢400. But all is not what it seems
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Aliens are the size of polar bears (probably)—Series 7
4/4 If we find other intelligent life in the universe, what should we expect it to look like?
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Have we already found aliens?—Series 7
3/4 What should scientists do if they come across possible evidence of extraterrestrial life?
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Lightning before death—Series 7
2/4 Can people who haven't spoken for years have lucid conversations just before they die?
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A Sense of Direction—Series 7
1/4 Might humans have an inbuilt compass like homing pigeons? If so, how can we rediscover it?
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Digital death - what happens to your online stuff after you've gone?
Who do you want to read your old emails when you die? Are the dead entitled to privacy?
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Whistling—Series 6
Jolyon Jenkins meets the people who want whistling to be taken seriously as a musical art.
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Free Energy—Series 6
Jolyon Jenkins meets the men trying to build free energy machines in their garages.