#357 The Brain Electric

Published: Feb. 19, 2016, 4 a.m.

b'This week, we\'re looking at the progress we\'ve made toward connecting our minds with machines. We talk with journalist Malcolm Gay about the challenge of creating prosthetics, how close we are to controlling them with our thoughts alone, and his new book "The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines". We also speak to artist and blogger Amy Davis Roth about Mad Art Cast, a podcast about the intersection of art and science.\\nRead the companion post on Skepchick.'