Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week’s episode, we talk to Sidarta Ribeiro.
He’s a Professor of Neuroscience at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil and author of The Oracle of Night: The history and science of dreams (£20, Bantam Press).
In this episode, he explains what is going on in our brains when we dream.
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And if that’s not enough, you can hear even more from Sidarta on Instant Genius Extra.
On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered on Instant Genius. In this episode, Sidarta discusses the meaning of dreams and why they are a vital component of the human experience.
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- The origins of religion, with Robin Dunbar
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