Category: Answers With Joe

Your Brain’s Incredible Healing Powers

The placebo effect is the phenomenon of your body responding to a treatment even if it’s not real. It happens so much, so strongly, and so often that it has to be factored in to any medical study.

It speaks to the amazing ability of the brain to physiologically change the body in surprising ways.

The Apocalypse That Could Have Been

Anybody who grew up in the 90s remembers the Y2K scare – the potential computer glitch that could end the world on January 1st, 2000. It didn’t happen of course, but it could have been bad if not for the work of some dedicated, anonymous heroes.

Could TESS Find Another Earth?

The search for exoplanets is an effort to understand our place in the universe. How special are we? Is there another Earth out there? Are there other versions of us?

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is currently surveying the entire sky to get us closer to the answer. It’s an exoplanet hunter unlike any other, and it could change the way we see ourselves.

Special thanks to Dr. Sara Seagar for her help in researching this video.

The Man Who Disappeared For 27 Years

issociative fugues are states in which a person suffers an involuntary erasure of identity, literally living under a different personality for months or even years before waking up with no memory of the time that has passed.

One of the most perplexing cases of this is the mystery of Benjamin Kyle, a man who was found beaten and naked behind a dumpster in 2004 and had no memory of his life or identity.

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