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Giants Shoulder

Evan McGloughlin

A Biology & Consciousness podcast chronicling the bio-singularity. 3x times per week I speak with leading scientists at the bleeding edge of Neuroscience, Consciousness and Biology. No idea is too strange, tackled with genuine curiosity and technical rigour. Come follow the journey as I have my brain melted and ontology warped on a regular basis. Evan has a Neuroscience degree from Trinity College Dublin and is founder of Giants Shoulder.

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01:35:52

#141 - Meet the Neuroscientist Investigating Language...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/07/27

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02:04:26

#140 - Meet The DMT Explorer Who's Had 100+...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/07/23

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01:42:43

#139 - Meet The Greatest Ibogaine Psychedelic...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/07/20

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01:14:57

#138 - Meet The Greatest Ayahuasca Psychedelic...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/07/17

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01:31:49

#137 - Dennis McKenna: "I've Spent 50 Years...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/07/13

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01:30:18

#136 - Denis Noble: Neo-Darwinism, Michael Levin &...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/07/10

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01:20:24

#135 - Consciousness Expert Explains The 5 Levels Of...

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2026/07/06

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01:38:40

#134 - Neuroscientist: "Your Brain Doesn't Create...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/07/02

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01:13:43

#133 - Meet The Most Important Man Alive In The...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/29

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01:46:18

#132 - Meet the Psychedelic Scientist Proving The...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/25

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01:05:30

#131 Neuroscientist Ranks Every Drug By How Hard They...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/23

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01:50:18

#130 - The Two Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientists...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/18

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01:15:05

#129 - Meet The Worlds Greatest Emotion Neuroscientist

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/16

Want a full breakdown of your own conscious inner experience? Join the Giant’s Shoulder community: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutJoseph LeDoux is, by almost any measure, the greatest emotion neuroscientist who has ever lived. His work has been cited more than 185,000 times, he wrote The Emotional Brain — the book that defined the field — and he put the amygdala on the map as the brain’s fear centre. Then he spent a decade arguing that everyone, including himself, got the lesson

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01:50:21

#128 - Meet the Neuroscientist Proving Scientists Got...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/11

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01:10:16

#127 Meet the Neuroscientist Who Gave A Brain to...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/08

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01:39:23

#126 - Michael Levin & Earl Miller: Bioelectricity,...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/04

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01:46:58

#125 Meet The World’s Greatest Endogenous DMT...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/06/02

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01:45:36

#124 - Meet the Professor of Paranormal Consciousness...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/05/28

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01:17:08

#123 - Meet The Most Persuasive Panpsychist Alive Today

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/05/26

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01:39:50

#122 - Meet the Psychiatrist Training To Be An...

Giants Shoulder ·

2026/05/21

Want to truly understand your own conscious inner experience? I built a tool and its free - https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutDr Simon Ruffell is a clinical psychiatrist and the CEO of Onaya Science, the research organisation that studies Amazonian ayahuasca healing alongside Shipibo curanderos in the Peruvian rainforest. His team ran the first-ever study on a psychedelic and human epigenetics — finding that ayahuasca methylates the trauma-memory gene SIGMAR1, mapping precisely

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