Megacities
"Earth is beautiful. It's people who make it horrific. MEGACITIES is a film about work poverty, violence, love and sex. A film about the beauty of people."
"Earth is beautiful. It's people who make it horrific. MEGACITIES is a film about work poverty, violence, love and sex. A film about the beauty of people."
For most of human history our brains dealt with pretty straight forward problems. But that brain is the exact same one we now use to grapple with the modern world.
Our brain is always making decisions - Nigel explores how it does this, and if we can help it to make better ones? Is it possible to change the brain we’re born with to a supercharged brain?
The traditional narrative is that humans are selfish. If pushed, the story goes, we look after ourselves first and others later. In this episode we see how modern neuroscience has blown that myth apart. Connecting with other people is one of the most important functions of the human brain. Which is why our brain constantly pushes us towards other brains, because it knows that connecting with other humans is the single best thing that we have going for us.
In the first episode we explore the apparently very simple question: What is your brain? This is something humans have been struggling to understand for millennia, and science for several decades. We’re still a long way from knowing everything, but the things we’ve discovered so far are literally astounding.
Desmond Patrick Costello was one of the most brilliant New Zealanders of his generation – a linguist of genius who spoke ten languages and could learn one in a month. He was also a war hero who used his linguistic skills to lead his battered unit from behind German lines in Greece to safety in an incredible journey of bravery and daring. Appointed as a diplomat to the New Zealand legation in Moscow after the war he wrote the first western eyewitness account of the Nazi death camps.
Amal Graafstra is an O.G. cyborg, known for his TED talks and interviews on international media outlets. But what some people might not know about Amal is that he's also the CEO of Dangerous Things, a company that creates and sells implantable consumer tech.
Liviu Babitz and his company are turning humans into Cyborgs by giving them a new ability that allows them to sense North.
The Cyborg Foundation aims to put together and empower people that are willing to unite with technology.
Manel Munoz has implanted a new sensory organ that allows him to sense changes in atmospheric pressure.
Neil Harbisson is an artist and a cyborg that has an antenna in his skull that allows him to hear color.
Anastasia Synn is a modern-day cyborg, pushing the limits of technology and her body as well as incorporating her implants into her magic performances.
Justin Worst is a rock climber and archeologist who became a cyborg to get one step closer to his childhood dream.
Grindhouse Wetware is a startup challenging the medical industry to be more radical when it comes to saving lives. Would you become a cyborg to escape an early death?