1In Living Color
Is an apple actually red, or a leaf really green? Think again. With a series of interactive games and fascinating experiments, the shocking truth is revealed that color is just an illusion created by your brain. Find out how! |
2Laws of Attraction
Journey into the secrets of long-term relationships, and play along to discover what attracts two people together beyond conscious control-including a shocking revelation of the one body part that often predicts compatibility. |
4Battle of the Ages
Explore your brain and how it doesn't always act its age. Through a series of games and experiments, you'll discover how your daily routines might be aging you. |
6Retrain Your Brain #3.06
7Retrain Your Brain
It's easy to upgrade the electronics you rely on every day; can you do the same with your brain? Put your brain to the test with a series of interactive games and experiments that reveal hidden mental shortcuts, and how to give enhance it. |
8Mind Your Body
Your mind and body are connected in countless ways, and some are more mysterious than others. Discover how your mind and body sometimes work together like the best of friends-and how they sometimes betray each other like the worst of enemies.
9In It to Win It
What's it about the human brain that makes you want to win--even at all costs? Through a series of competitions, play along as two teams duke it out. Learn what drives you to compete, why some are born competitors, and why it's good for you.
10Follow the Leader
Ever wonder why yawns are so contagious? Like it or not, much of your behavior is influence by copying others. Through a series of games and experiments, discover whether your brain is a born leader--or a born follower. |
3Language
Discover how language is the closest thing humans have to telepathy and how you communicate without words every day. Guest Sri Sarma, a biomedical-engineer from John Hopkins University, leads a discovery of language and how humans create meaning.
5Battle of the Sexes II
Find out how the male brain and female brain differ when they are pitted against each other in games and experiments. Learn which gender is victorious in the battle of the sexes. |
6Superstitions
Learn about your superstition and why humans believe in things that have no basis in reality. Discover why your brain may be hardwired to be superstitious and if it's possible to read minds. |
7Food
Discover the brain's role in your choice of food and what makes you hungry. Through interactive games and experiments, you will learn why you overeat and whether taking comfort in comfort food is good for you. |
8Anger
What if getting angry had less to do with what's going on around you, and more to do with what's going on inside your brain? Explore why your brain gets angry and what you can do about it. |
9Patterns
Have you ever noticed that life is a series of routines, done in the same order, day after day? Whether you realize it or not, your daily routine is really a pattern. Learn how, when processing the world, your brain is always filling in the blanks.
10Intuition
The power of intuition--when you know something to be true without knowing why--is one of the mind's greatest mysteries. Test your intuition and learn how your brain makes decisions without you having to think about it. |
1Common Sense
From knowing when to cross the street to avoiding hot stoves, your brain is constantly making judgments that you likely take for granted...
2Left vs. Right
Whether you're a left-handed artist or a right-handed accountant, we all use both sides of our brains. But is there any science behind the notion that the left half or our brain is the creative side while the right half is more logical? In this episode about your left and right brain, we're going to put you through a series of games and experiments designed to find out how the two sides operate, what they really control, and whether or not one side of your brain dominates the other.
3Morality
Have you ever wondered where your morality comes from? Is it ingrained in your brain, set by religion, or does society dictate what you deem as right or wrong? Through a series of interactive games and experiments, we'll test the strength of your moral fiber. Play along and discover how your brain makes countless moral decisions every single day. We're going to mess with your mind as we show you how outside influences like clothing, attitude, and your own evolutionary survival may sway your brain...and your morals.
4Money
This is a show about your brain and money. It's present in every corner of our lives-we earn it, spend it, manage it and often obsess over it, but how well do we really understand it? If you play along you'll understand why your brain gets excited when you think you're getting a deal, why there's no such thing as a free lunch, and you'll learn how to stop paying more for less.
5Paranormal
Have you ever seen a ghost? Have you ever known something was going happen before it happened? If so, you may share a link with the paranormal. Or it might just be your brain playing tricks on you. Whether you're a skeptic or a believer in the supernatural, you have to admit there are things out there your brain just can't quite explain. This is an episode about your brain and the paranormal. Get ready for a series of games and experiments designed to prove you actually know more about the unknown than you think. We're going to put your sixth sense to the test by exposing you to some very ghostly illusions-think you can spot a ghost? We'll also reveal the secret science behind a séance that blindsided our brave volunteers. Finally, we'll put your paranormal beliefs to the ultimate test in a home-buying experience from hell. If you play along, you might discover that you're not as skeptical of the supernatural as you think.
6Memory
In this episode about memory, we're going to show you what memory is, why you even have one, and why you keep forgetting where you put those darn keys! And if you play along you'll see why forgetting can actually be a good thing! It's going to be a night to remember...on Brain Games.
7Misconceptions
This is a show about your brain and the widely held myths you believe to be true. Through a series of fun and interactive games and experiments, you'll discover whether or not you only use 10% of your brain, if size really does matter and whether listening to Mozart actually makes you smarter.
8Peer Pressure
Are you a unique individual? Are you a rebel - or do you give into peer pressure? If you think you have full control of your thoughts and actions - think again. It turns out the clothes you wear, the food you eat, and even the way you walk has less to do with you and more to do with everyone else. In this episode, we'll explore that your brain may be hardwired to want to fit in. Through a series of games and experiments, we'll prove that the decisions that make you yourself also make you a part of the crowd. Sure, some of what we're about to point out might make you look like a fool...but your brain's tendency to conform evolved to protect you and might even help you succeed.
9Logic
In this episode of BRAIN GAMES, we put your problem-solving skills to the test as we lead you through a labyrinth of logic games. Every day, you use logic to get things done, from dressing for the weather, choosing the best route to work, to deciding what to eat for dinner. Through a series of interactive games and experiments, you'll learn about the power and the limitations of your logical abilities. Studies have found that logic is something you develop and hone with practice, so play along as we present puzzles and illusions that will help strengthen your brain.
10Faces
Your face is pretty remarkable. Whether you've got a baby face, a poker face, or a face only a mother could love... your identity is deeply rooted in your own unique face. And with over 40 muscles twisting and contorting, your face allows you to express a near infinite number of emotions and feelings. But not only are you capable of making faces -- your brain is also highly adept at recognizing what other peoples' faces are saying to you. In this episode about faces, we're going to mess with your mind and show you that there's more to a face than meets the eye. And if you play along, you'll discover the most important feature of your face, how staring can make you want to fight or take flight, and why looking at just parts of a face won't always give you the whole picture.
11Sleep
The average adult spends more than 220,000 hours - or roughly 25 years - in bed sleeping. That's one third of your life spent in slumber!1 But what exactly is sleep - and why do we spend so much time doing it? In what could be our most ambitious Brain Games experiment ever, we keep 3 volunteers awake for 36 hours in order to answer just that.
12Imagination
This is a show about your brain and its imagination. We often associate imagination with creativity and the arts, but we don't always think about how important it is to our daily lives. If you play along you'll see how you can use your imagination to solve daily problems, you'll learn how to tap into the imaginative process, and that, with a little help, you can keep the good ideas flowing.
13Positive Thinking
Do you sometimes hear a little voice in your head, an inner critic that keeps you from performing at your best...
14Perspective
In this episode of Brain Games, you'll see how your brain gets tripped up by odd angles, how light and...
15Scams
Pay close attention - what you discover in this episode of Brain Games will keep you from falling for a scam...
16Animal vs. Human
On this beastly episode, it's going to be heads vs. tails as we pit humans against animals in series of unique competitions...
