In today’s Academic Minute, Dean Buonomano of the University of California Los Angeles explores why our brains are often biologically unequipped to accurately perceive the modern world. Buonomano is a professor of neurobiology and behavioral neuroscience at UCLA, a member of the university’s Brain Research Institute, and author of Brain Bugs: How the Brain’s Flaws Shape Our Lives. Find out more about him here. A transcript of this podcast can be found here.