This week, a brain special, sort of.
Norman Doidge, a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto, tells us it's never too late to re-mould our brains. He explains the organ's amazing ability to relearn and adapt – even after major traumas like a stroke. He also reveals the key to monogamy (variety, apparently) and why people become addicted to internet porn.
We hear Jemima Kiss interview Baroness Susan Greenfield, who clarifies her widely reported remarks about the effects of social networking and gaming on the brain. It's not as simple as saying Facebook rots your brain – though she advises that more research is needed. The full interview will be in tomorrow's Tech Weekly podcast.
We also speak to David Jentsch of the Brain Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, about his stand against increasingly violent animal rights campaigners. Jentsch describes his own encounter with extremism when activists set fire to his car last month.
All that plus some non-brain stuff in the Newsjam: GM crops, building living machines from the parts of organisms and Nasa's decision to ignore a popular vote to name a new module on the International Space Station after a comedian.
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