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It seems like every week someone tells us how the internet and the digital age are overloading our brains. Sure, sometimes it feels like we're being fed more information than we can handle, that we're paying attention to the wrong things. Are we giving our brain a fair shot?

Your brain constantly makes judgment calls often considered common sense - but how common is it? Illusionist Eric Leclerc reveals faults in your beliefs and perceptions. Then we'll put gravity - and your assumptions - to the test by dropping a watermelon and an egg from four stories up! We'll employ the "Wisdom of the Crowd" to guess the number of gumballs contained in a giant jar. Comedian Ben Bailey will quiz people on the street to see just how...

Every time you make a decision, your brain enters an often invisible battle between risk and reward. Through a series of addictive interactive games, surprising experiments, and relatable experts you'll learn astonishing facts about how you make decisions - and how to get better at making them. So get ready to choose wisely - on Brain Games.

This episode of BRAIN GAMES puts your problem-solving skills to the test as we lead you through a labyrinth of logic games. Every day, you use logic to get things done, from dressing for the weather, choosing the best route to work, to deciding what to eat for dinner. Through a series of interactive games and experiments, you'll learn about the power and the limitations of your logical abilities. Studies show that logic is something you develop and...

Sinkhole survivors tell about their terrifying experience while others mourn the loss of family and homes. Geologist Matthew Kirby investigates the causes of Florida's Sinkhole Alley and maps aquifer tunnels with the help of divers and a cave cartographer.Kirby teams up with a top Hollywood special effects company to simulate the lethal power of nature's most terrifying death trap: Sinkholes!

Whether you're trying to get to the head of the class, earn the big promotion or just find a parking spot, every day, you're competing. In this episode we'll explore your brain and competition through a series of, well, competitions! Each viewer will be assigned a team and play along as our Red and Blue teams duke it out in a head-to-head battle to determine the winner.

Did you know a healthy dose of fear is actually good for you? Through a series of fun interactive games we'll show you how fear can give you a feeling of heightened ability, why you get that tingling sensation down your spine and why you shouldn't be afraid of being afraid.

When it comes to motion, seeing isn't always believing. Through a series of mind-bending games, you'll learn how the hard wiring of the brain perceives motion and how that perception doesn't always match reality.

In this episode, you're not going to be able to believe your eyes. Through a series of fun, interactive games and illusions, we'll show you that what you see shouldn't always be trusted - and often it's your brain that's to blame.

We all like to think we have a good grasp of the workings of the world around us, but do we? Through a series of fun, interactive games you'll see firsthand how little knowledge your brain really holds - but don't feel bad, it's not just you! Get ready to say hello to what you don't know, on Brain Games.