Click above to listen to part 4 of Skeptic Check: Brain Gain, featuring Leonard Mlodinow, physicist and author of Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change,” describing how our nimble brains are constantly adapting to the high speed reality in which we’re engaged.

Skeptic Check: Brain Gain:
Part 1: Smart Drugs
Part 2: Brain Training
Part 3: Brain Power
Part 4: Brain Flexibility 

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Our Skeptic Check episodes take a critical look at extraordinary science claims and pseudoscience.

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Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute

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