Simple Things That Play Tricks on Your Brain

Ryan and his brother Jason take on ten everyday ways the brain glitches on The Worst of the Best Podcast.They cover the food variety effect that makes holiday buffets dangerous, why breaking eye contact isn’t always a lie, crossing your arms to ease pain, mixing up left and right, beauty bias, kids who think birthday parties make them older, motion sickness as a “you’ve been poisoned” alarm, the 2015 dress color debate, handing over personal data for an Instagram cookie, and the God Helmet placebo experiment.Rate the show on iTunes or Spotify. Email is in the show notes.00:00 – Intro   03:20 – #10 Food variety effect   08:10 – #9 Breaking eye contact   11:45 – #8 Crossing arms eases pain   14:59 – #7 Left and right confusion   28:50 – Motion sickness as poison signal   30:20 – The dress / color disagreement   35:27 – Trading privacy for cookies   38:28 – God helmet experiment   45:16 – Recap and worst picks 46:38 – Wrap-up