# BRAINLAND Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859.md RSS feed: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6452b6516dd22500113dc7ca Official site: https://shows.acast.com/brainland Author: Ken Barrett Episodes: 93 ## Resource Brainland the podcast navigates the boundary between neuroscience, the arts and humanities with the occasional wander off piste. It began as a neuro-historical exploration of the background to the Brainland the opera but quickly spread its wings. A Brainland Collective production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/brainland-6744859 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859.md ## Episodes - [CHALLENGING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HUMAN: Post-humanism in literature and film](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/challenging-the-boundaries-of-the-human-post-humanism-in-literature-and-film) — 2026-06-26T09:43:07+00:00 - [FOUND IN TRANSLATION: Linguistic shape-shifting.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/found-in-translation-linguistic-shape-shifting) — 2026-06-11T17:33:15+00:00 - [DERRIDA'S CAT: Exploring the boundaries of the human.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/derrida-s-cat-exploring-the-boundaries-of-the-human) — 2026-06-08T19:43:51+00:00 - [DOPPELGANGER: Doubles in psychiatry, neurology and fiction.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/doppelganger-doubles-in-psychiatry-neurology-and-fiction) — 2026-05-19T18:48:40+00:00 - [BIOETHICS AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/bioethics-and-the-new-world-order) — 2026-05-12T19:25:36+00:00 - [POSTHUMANIST VULNERABILITY](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/posthumanist-vulnerability) — 2026-05-07T16:29:22+00:00 - [FREUD AND THE NEUROSCIENCE OF MENTAL HEALING](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/freud-and-the-neuroscience-of-mental-healing) — 2026-04-30T15:56:58+00:00 - [PROTO: Uncovering the shared origin of the world's most spoken languages.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/proto-uncovering-the-shared-origin-of-the-world-s-most-spoken-languages) — 2026-04-21T18:48:32+00:00 - [GEORGE SAND: The life, times and shifting reputation of an early feminist writer and thinker.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/george-sand-the-life-times-and-shifting-reputation-of-an-early-feminist-writer-and-thinker) — 2026-04-02T16:13:23+00:00 - [TRANSHUMANISM: Humanity's great hope or the devil's work?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/transhumanism-humanity-s-great-hope-or-the-devil-s-work) — 2026-03-24T14:14:06+00:00 - [THE MATCHBOX GIRL: Recreating Hans Asperger's world in fiction](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/the-matchbox-girl-recreating-hans-asperger-s-world-in-fiction) — 2026-03-19T21:52:48+00:00 - [HANS ASPERGER AND THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM: Reflections on the past, present and future](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/hans-asperger-and-the-autistic-spectrum-reflections-on-the-past-present-and-future) — 2026-03-06T20:50:48+00:00 - [SEASON 2 FINALE: Surfing Brainland](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/season-2-finale-surfing-brainland) — 2026-02-07T20:47:18+00:00 - [FRANKENSTEIN DISASSEMBLED: The remarkable life of Mary Shelley.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/frankenstein-disassembled-the-remarkable-life-of-mary-shelley) — 2026-02-02T00:00:00+00:00 - [DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 2 - Neuroscientific collaborations.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/discovering-eisenstein-part-2-neuroscientific-collaborations) — 2026-01-29T20:19:39+00:00 - [DISCOVERING EISENSTEIN: Part 1 - Life and films.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/discovering-eisenstein-part-1-life-and-films) — 2026-01-21T16:39:51+00:00 - [AN ARTIFICIAL HISTORY OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE: Time travelling the mind.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/an-artificial-history-of-natural-intelligence-time-travelling-the-mind) — 2026-01-17T12:19:12+00:00 - [WILLIAM SARGANT AND HIS 'SLEEP ROOM': Shrinks, spooks and medical hubris.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/william-sargant-and-his-sleep-room-shrinks-spooks-and-medical-hubris) — 2026-01-14T10:25:02+00:00 - [MANHANDLING THE BRAIN: How did damaging the brains of the mentally ill ever seem a good idea?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/manhandling-the-brain-how-did-damaging-the-brains-of-the-mentally-ill-ever-seem-a-good-idea) — 2025-12-28T17:12:17+00:00 - [THE HORROR! The anatomy of fear in film.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/the-horror-the-anatomy-of-fear-in-film) — 2025-12-18T10:52:31+00:00 - [HORROR ON THE BRAIN: The neuroscience behind sci fi and horror.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/horror-on-the-brain-the-neuroscience-behind-sci-fi-and-horror) — 2025-12-11T08:50:01+00:00 - [DREAM WARRIORS: Exploring the world of the surrealists...](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/dream-warriors-exploring-the-world-of-the-surrealists) — 2025-12-05T09:39:56+00:00 - [DREAMWORKS: Fellini's dream obsession, from graphic diaries to movies.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/dreamworks-fellini-s-dream-obsession-from-graphic-diaries-to-movies) — 2025-12-01T17:13:01+00:00 - ['...PERCHANCE TO DREAM: On the neuroscience of sleep and dreaming...](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/perchance-to-dream-on-the-neuroscience-of-sleep-and-dreaming) — 2025-11-27T14:27:53+00:00 - [MUSIC OF THE SPHERES: Exploring the strange power of plainchant.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/brainland-6744859/music-of-the-spheres-exploring-the-strange-power-of-plainchant) — 2025-11-12T11:06:46+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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