EPISODE · Oct 18, 2025 · 36 MIN
Dan Riskin: Galápagos Adventure, Musician Brain Pain - October 18, 2025
from The Last Show with David Cooper · host David Cooper
On The Science Appliance, evolutionary biologist Dan Riskin drops in for a podcast-only bonus episode of The Last Show. Dan talks about his upcoming – or perhaps current? – trip to The Galápagos Islands. The two discuss how neuroscientists found that musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us. Taping the show in advance of its release, David and Dan suffer from temporal displacement issues and can't wrap their heads around when "now" is. Sign up for Dan's weekly science newsletter The Bat Signal by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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On The Science Appliance, evolutionary biologist Dan Riskin drops in for a podcast-only bonus episode of The Last Show. Dan talks about his upcoming – or perhaps current? – trip to The Galápagos Islands. The two discuss how neuroscientists found that musicians feel pain differently from the rest of us. Taping the show in advance of its release, David and Dan suffer from temporal displacement issues and can't wrap their heads around when "now" is. Sign up for Dan's weekly science newsletter The Bat Signal by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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