Super Senses

As artists and scientists explore the edges of our senses, what we touch, taste, see, smell, and hear is changing. 

In this hour we hear from a psychiatrist who’s using touch to help people recover from trauma, investigate a mysterious sensory experience that gives some people euphoric tingles, and talk to an artist who’s invented a brand new sense and made himself a cyborg along the way.

Also, with the spread of Ebola in West Africa, a historian talks about how the legacy of medical experiments in Liberia affects how people are responding to the disease.