Delightful photos of Dr. Oliver Sacks as a young man.

Tune in this week for strange stories of brains leading their owners astray, knocking them off balance, and, sometimes, propelling them to do amazing things. Check it out! by turning the dial to a station near you. 

In our What's Left When You're Right episode, we tackle the mysterious endurance of southpaws--left-handed people living in a right-handed world. Turns out, art history is equally (but oppositely) biased with left-facing portraits.

A deleted scene from our Mau Mau episode.  We just couldn't figure out where to put this little bit of conversation.

 If you think you learned all there is to know from that junior high school filmstrip, think again.

Ready, get set, go! Let's compare a sperm whale plowing through the ocean to a human sperm plowing through a glass of water: The whale barely notices the water it's in; the sperm — oh, gee — it's got a problem. And a masterful solution.

What is there to do when you find yourself in front of a wall of insect chrysalides, waiting for a butterfly, transformed from a caterpillar, to emerge? Count and stare, of course.

Alzheimer's, the disease that creeps in and slowly erases what you know until, eventually, there's no more to erase is still largely a mystery. But this short animation by Po Chou Chi tries to make poetic sense of what it might feel like.

A glimpse of what life was like for the German POW's kept on American soil during WWII.