Did you hear the one about the bank robber who thought it would help to squeeze lemons in his eyes right before his crime? The psychologist David Dunn...

This is the story of patient H.M., a polite man without a memory, and the brilliant but often overlooked scientist who put him on the map.

What happens when you put three delusional men, all of whom believe that they're Jesus Christ, in the same room? In the late 1950s, a psychologist at ...

About a century ago, a scientist had a dream in which he devised an experiment. He forgot the dream the next morning, but it still managed to win him ...

The working title for this week's episode was "Hitler's Hysteria," which I liked for it's alliteration. The term hysteria is generally frowned upon no...

This week, I talk about the doomsday religion that social psychology Leon Festinger studied in the 1950s. His studies led him to develop his theory of...

This week, I talk about the chain of events that lead to the serendipitous discovery of valproic acid. Valproic acid is one of the key ingredients in ...

This week's podcast tells the story of Hans Berger, a German scientist during the first half of the 20th century. Berger (which a German speaking frie...