Seth's Crawl Space

It’s always a surprise to go digging in Seth’s crawl space – who knows what we’ll find! In this cramped never-never land, tucked between piles of spilled cat litter and old clarinet reeds, we stumble upon the language of whales … the future of technology … the secret to plant power … and the answer to whether photographic memory exists. Tune in, find out and, grab a broom, will you?

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1 - Larry Squire
Part 2 - Oliver Morton
Part 3 - Fred Sharpe
Part 4 - Computer History Museum
Part 5 - Nathan Myhrvold

Seth's Crawl Space - Larry Squire

Part 1 of Seth's Crawl Space, featuring Larry Squire, professor at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and a scientist at the V.A. Medical Center in San Diego.

Thanks for the Memories

Memories are slippery things – some are crystal clear, others more like a muddy pool, and some… well, they seem to vanish completely.

Scientists admit that memory is all very complicated, but one piece of the puzzle lies in how we age – we’ll hear the latest research.

Meanwhile, meet the man who digitally logged his every waking moment – and why maybe the secret to happiness isn’t in remembering but in forgetting.

Plus, the case for deleting data from your hard-drive… and from your brain itself.

Listen to individual segments here:
Part 1 - The Memory Test
Part 2 - Adam Gazzaley
Part 3 - Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
Part 4 - James McGaugh
Part 5 - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Part 6 - Todd Sacktor

Thanks for the Memories - The Memory Test

Part 1 of Thanks for the Memories, featuring a short term memory test on our intern, Sandra Chung, and volunteer Jay Weiler.

Thanks for the Memories - Adam Gazzaley

Part 2 of Thanks for the Memories, featuring Adam Gazzaley, director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at University of California, San Francisco.

Thanks for the Memories - Gordon Bell & Jim Gemmell

Part 3 of Thanks for the Memories, featuring Gordon Bell, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and Jim Gemmell, senior researcher at Microsoft Research.

Thanks for the Memories - James McGaugh

Part 4 of Thanks for the Memories, featuring James McGaugh, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine.

Thanks for the Memories - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Part 5 of Thanks for the Memories, featuring Viktor Mayer-Schönberger , director of the Information and Innovation Policy Research Center at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and the author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age.

Thanks for the Memories - Todd Sacktor

Part 6 of Thanks for the Memories, featuring Todd Sacktor, neurologist, SUNY Downstate Medical Center.