What Everyone Gets Wrong About Fear of Heights

When Daniel looked out from a 25th-floor balcony in Jerusalem and felt that familiar woozy sensation, he wondered: are some people just born without fear of heights? In this episode, we explore the surprising science of acrophobia — from the classic visual cliff experiments that prove we're all born with a height-caution system, to the brain mechanisms behind that vertiginous lurch. We learn why crane operators eat lunch 300 feet up while others can't step onto a second-floor balcony, and why the difference isn't fear itself — it's how the brain regulates it.