
Profile: David Eagleman
Clip: Season 5 Episode 3 | 11m 39s
A neuroscientist finds inventive and terror-inducing ways to study the brain.
A neuroscientist finds inventive and terror-inducing ways to study the brain.
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Profile: David Eagleman
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A neuroscientist finds inventive and terror-inducing ways to study the brain.
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