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fact-checking brain science news and asking brain scientists about mistakes and controversies
OPEN SCIENCE & ITS ENEMIES, PART III: The Progressives in this episode i conclude my critique of - some parts of - the open science movement...
in this episode i continue discussing some problems in the open science movement. i focus on populist podcasters and the promotion of simpli...
There's no brain news this month, but i take this unique opportunity to provide the first of my three part critique of - some parts of - the...
in this episode we find out how motivational talk makes you run faster & i ponder on the history of science & the death of ideas long, long...
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar: a podcast about brain science & statistics that's nothing like any other podcast about brai...
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar, where no drinks are served, which has only one song on the jukebox & one programme on the t...
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar, a podcast by a middle age man who likes statistics, FOR middle aged men who like statistics...
how learning to play the piano improves perception, why the brain needs a break, image manipulation & the wonder of winter walking. keywords...
how different people see the world of colour differently, the study of love that triggered a studied hate & the annual review of the error b...
how the largest part of the brain gets emotional, why older adults don't get emotion, how goldfish can swim 70cm for food & FREE ENERGY fore...
how the mouse eye tells the mouse brain that a mouse is scratching itself, how dogs are everywhere & the two scientific cultures of simplifi...
how to massively improve your memory in old age after just a few hours, why scientists won't change their mind, & how the brain is not made...
bringing you the brain science news before it happens. or sometimes a long, long time afterwards. & sometimes it's not really news at all. m...
the biggest brain scanning study ever, how the error bar was wrong, how magnetically stimulating the head is distracting & some vaguely-inte...
how the visual brain controls blind people's feet, & how every single brain scanning study ever done needed thousands more participants to b...
how to find the clitoris, how COVID shrinks some very important parts of the brain & the Canadian brain disease that isn't. still. keywords:...
how your brain is just as good at age 60 as age 30, the neural correlates of near death experience & the most interesting questions in the w...
how your brain lives in the past, the virus causing multiple sclerosis, consciousness explained three times, the scanner that talks scots &...
how rocket scientists & brain surgeons are just as clever as you, how to publish anything in medical journals, how music affects the brain &...
how smelling bodily odour stops men from killing & makes women warriors, how alcoholic binges shrink your brain & the wind farms that make y...
how long to hug someone for, how to make many labs make the right work, an update on Canada's mysterious brain disease, & three neuroscienti...
on the 25th anniversary of an influential neuroscience paper, the error bar talks to Drs Marie Martel & Luke Miller about how using tools ch...
how women are more creative when ovulating, how to treat autism, and the error bar receives a rebuttal. keywords: ovulation Darwin autism th...
the neuroscience of birdsong, Nobel gongs for sensory neuroscientists, the corporate world of brain-hacking and the neuroscience universe lo...
the microwaves in cuba that cook spies' brains & make them hear things, dogs hearing their owners' voices in brain scanners & consciousness...
discussing the claim there are no green stars, astrophysicist Dr Ulrike Kuchner & psychophysicist Dr Christopher Taylor describe green valle...
the error bar talks to Valentine Delrue & Sean Devine, editors at The Journal of Trial and Error (JOTE; https://www.jtrialerror.com/), a jou...
as silly season (or cucumber time) continues, newspapers & science websites re-hash stories told decades ago, making more of the same errors...
how mirror neurons and physics can explain everything about the human brain, the correct way to eat chocolate biscuits & the error bar takes...
how scientists lose confidence in their own work, the mega corporations who infiltrate our dreams & music to listen to in the gym after work...
can humans learn to echolocate? the hostile media effect, the spread of fake news on twitter, & whether brain chemicals predict mathematics...
how the visual brain processes hands & cutlery, the worst study ever, mirror neurons, alcohol, zombies & the amazing Jane Goodall. keywords:...
Episode #10 was edited-down from around 2 hours of raw conversation with Dr Peter Lush from the University of Sussex UK, and Dr Regine Zopf...
Dr Peter Lush from the University of Sussex, UK & Dr Regine Zopf from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia discuss a recent controversy a...
the psychology of misinformation, what we can do to fight fake news & neuromyths, brain size, a new brain disease in Canada & dementia - aga...
explaining how the human brain evolved & develops, the sensitivity of our fingertip nerves, dementia, Elon Musk, horses, inflammation, shama...
the brain differences between men & women, how neuroscience can reduce murders, why adults drink wine and why children shouldn't eat sugar....
welcome to the error bar, where neuroscience meets uncertainty. the error bar is a podcast about brain science news, error, confusion, uncer...
are cuttlefish better at delaying rewards than crows & kids? neuroscience manipulation, bullying & failure, and the millions in prize money...
discussing the claim that there are no green stars, astrophysicist Dr Ulrike Kuchner from the University of Nottingham & psychophysicist Dr...
how your brain does maths while you dream, the brain differences between agreeing & disagreeing with someone & why extreme opinions slow dow...
how social media posts betray relationship breakdown, how lonely brains are different, and the quest for the brain's beauty centre. keywords...
how electrocuting the face & brain reduces obsessive behaviour, how nose-pumping helps with sleep hygiene, & the monkeys who'll swap your ip...
the vegetables and vitamins that stop cognitive decline and parkinson's, how city life slows you down, and the continuing failure of compute...
[this is a pilot episode, recorded in April 2020, under Covid-19 lockdown and before purchasing a decent microphone.] why cannabis doesn't m...