Is it always harder to teach an old dog new tricks? Why is an older person slower to learn a new language but able to learn new faces easily? Why does Arnold Schwartzenegger have an accent but Mila Kunis doesn’t, even though neither spoke English as a child? Why is there a correlation between how tall a person is and how much salary they're likely to earn? What would it mean to say that you are born as many people but die as a single one? This week's episode dives into surprises about brain plasticity and why your flexibility changes throughout your lifetime.

Ep147 "Can we engineer human thought?" with Tom Griffiths
50:21

Ep146 "Who Counts as Human in Your Mind?" with Lasana Harris
1:07:33

Ep145 Why do we compulsively click on ragebait? with Angele Christin
1:10:27