Brain Games

Explore the Hever Castle with Dr. Knight of the University of Hertfordshire and a memory game, and a paint-by-numbers exercise at Butler's Wharf with the University of Oxford's Dr. Hicks and inversion eyewear. Get ready to meet your brain. It will engage you, amaze you and help you understand yourself like never before. After all, it's the one physical system on earth capable of looking at itself.

Stars: Stephen Hicks, Tom Hope, Rebecca Knight
Director(s): Rachel Maguire
Writer(s): Nadia Nikolic Bowen

Is religious belief hard-wired in our brains?

Stars: Richard Bird, Layla Rose Cotter, Melissa Cotter

Brains have an evolutionary predilection toward bad behavior.

Stars: Abigail Baird, Tony Beard, Heather Campos

Jason Silva heads to the New Jersey Shore to see where your brain started as a baby where it is going as an adult and into old age.

Stars: Abigail Baird, Jason Chein, Cindy Lustig

Jason Silva leads viewers through a series of games and experiments designed to show that the brain has far more than just five senses.

Stars: Charles Hearn, Rachel Korb, Andrew Murray

Four survivors from different walks of life take on different types of challenges, from getting lost while trail trekking to socializing over beer. Watch to see how each one survives or thrives in different circumstances, and ultimately learn what's the best kind of brain when we see who wins out overall across some tough competition.

Stars: Mark Changizi, Melanie Hamlett, David Hopper