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Daniel Simons joins us from a studio in Illinois to discuss his new book The Invisible Gorilla. We look at how our intuition deceives us and the problems this causes for the judicial system. Daniel also reveals why criminals and chess players are more alike than they'd like to believe.
More than 40 years on, film footage of Nasa mission control during the Apollo 11 moon landing has only just been synchronised with the audio. We listen in to that.
Cian O'Luanaigh attends the first ever academic conference on the subject Comics and Medicine: Medical Narrative in Graphic Novels at the University of London. He reports on why doctors and nurses are turning to a different medium to get their message across.
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