Nat Geo Mundo launches Juegos Mentales.

Nat Geo Mundo explores your mind’s mad skills with the new series Juegos Mentales, which uncovers the surprising nature of how we process information, feel emotions, and perceive the world around us. Juegos Mentales is hosted by “idea DJ” and wonder junkie Jason Silva, a modern-day Carl Sagan with a touch of Timothy Leary.
 
In Juegos Mentales, audiences will be taken on a ride…this is Lean-In programming. We are inviting viewers to play along, to participate in the experiments and games…and through those experiences they will learn something in a visceral way. Jason will be there every step of the way to fully explain what has just happened so the audience understands.
  
Since the day you were born, a one and a half kilogram slimy blob has been controlling your every fleeting thought, split-second decision and complex judgment. It takes tremendous physical endurance for the brain to process everything we hear, see, smell, touch and taste, and even the fittest of the fit cannot process all this information at once. Which is why you might miss the spelling an grammatical errors in this sentence. Using a mere 12 watts of power, the brain creates shortcuts to fill in the gaps, leaving room for error. But like any other muscle in the body, you can improve performance with regular workouts.
 
Covering topics from visual perception to sound, creativity, lying, attractiveness and persuasion, the new series has man-on-the-street demonstrations and viewer participation through interactive brain-busters, Juegos Mentales offers a workout for your mind.
 
Guiding you through the twists and turns of your grey matter is host Jason Silva, a self-proclaimed “wonder junkie” and, according to The Atlantic, “a part-time filmmaker and full-time walking, talking TEDTalk.” At TEDGlobal in June 2012, Silva premiered a short video on “Radical Openness,” which explores the exponential rate of innovation and mankind using technology to transcend all previous limits.