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Michelle Synnot & Laurel Irons - MAP - New Bright Ep 2.1

The Mobile Access Project (MAP) is a three year pilot project to address violence against women sex workers in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver. Michelle Synnot is the program coordinator behind the MAP initiative. She will explain its full journey, how funding was cut by the provincial government, and how community action and persistence was able to bring MAP back from the brink and into safe hands.

Michelle Synnot has been contributing to the Downtown Eastside community for the past eight years with the Portland Hotel Society, Raincity Housing, and WISH. She now coordinates the MAP Vancouver project and continues her work supporting women in the sex trade in the GVRD.

Lon Mandrake - Magic & Teaching - New Bright Lights - Ep 1.2

How do you use magic to teach science? Lon Mandrake will apply examples from his background as an internationally known mind-mentalist to demonstrate how he uses magic and mental abilities to draw attention to his science teachings.

Lon Mandrake is a skilled magician who has performed at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, The New York Hall of Science, and in and Science World (Vancouver, B.C.). Lon is an award-winning educator and is currently the Regional Vice President of the Society of American Magicians for Canada.

Rob Hadley - Hypnotism - New Bright Lights Ep 1.1

In this lecture, Rob Hadley will examine the way we respond to suggestion and conditioned responses, such as our response to a 'Stop Sign.' He knows that we are slaves to our subconscious and will explain how suggestion may not always be in our best interests.

Rob trained at the Coastal Academy of Hypnotherapy, and later under masters of modern hypnosis. He was an instrumental force working with A&E Television to collaborate on two reality shows about hypnosis: Going Under, and Past Lives (with Andrew Gerard).

Rob Teszka - The Lying Brain - New Bright Lights Ep 1.3

The Lying Brain: We live under the assumption that we are aware of everything around us, and that the way we think is reasonable. However, research in cognitive and social psychology reveals that our eyes lie, our brains make up stories, and our decisions are far more influenced by the environment than we'd care to admit. This talk (and the lively discussion following) will show the results of some surprising studies into the nature of the mind, and our awareness of its capabilities.

Rob Teszka is a cognitive psychologist, science promoter, co-host of Radio Freethinker, and self-professed geek. Currently working at the Brain and Attention Research Lab at UBC, Rob is interested in how people's perceptions, beliefs, and decisions can be influenced by their environment and unconscious biases. He worries that people tend not to be aware of these influences, and that our society is based on the incorrect assumption that we cannot fool ourselves. Through radio, social media, blogging, and research, he hopes to show that most everything is not always as it seems.