When one man lost his eyesight, he turned to another skill: echolocation. Find out what we learned last week from iTunes’ top podcast.
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In the third episode, we met a man who learned to see without his eyes: in short, a different kind of Batman.
So put away your bat mask — this is a whole other superpower.
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Step 1: Learn about the forces around you.
Could your thoughts influence a rat going through a maze? It’s not telepathy: It’s expectancy effects, and how we perceive others’ abilities can actually tweak how they behave, whether they be rat or human.
Scientist Bob Rosenthal first documented this unconscious effect way back in the 1960s when he hung up some signs on rat cages indicating which were the Pinkies and which were the Brains. When NPR recreated the rat experiment for Invisibilia, the “smart” rats did almost twice as well than the so-called “dumb” rats.
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