Welcome to Brain Yapping, a brand new podcast hosted by neuroscientist and author Dr Dean Burnett and journalist Rachel England. Each week Rachel will lob a question about the human brain at Dean and with no prep, he'll try to come to some sort of scientific answer. If he doesn't know, don't worry, this is proper science, he'll fact check himself at the end of the episode. In the first instalment Rachel wonders why her brain never lets her remember to buy shower gel. Support the show, and everything at the Cosmic Shambles Network, by visiting and pledging to our Patreon at patreon.com/bookshambles