Why You’re Not Dead Yet

Neuroscientist Dave Farmer gives a comedic, educational talk about the arse end of the brain (aka the brainstem) filtered through Jackson Voorhaar’s non-educational comedy mind to help disseminate the information to the layidiot. Thanks for not laughing at disseminate.

Why You’re Not Dead Yet is an infotainment/storytelling/comedy mash performed by David Farmer, a Scottish (but also Australian) neuroscientist and Jackson Voorhaar, an eight-time Melbourne International Comedy Festival & two-time Edinburgh Fringe comedy veteran.

Dave gives a comedic informational talk, aimed at the layperson, on the  subconscious functions of the brain stem – Dave’s particular area of expertise – with detours into the origin of Frankenstein, the 18^th century Italians that invented the battery by accident, and Dave’s insecurity in party settings.

The brainstem the area of the brain that regulates things like your heart rate, your blood pressure and your breathing. Scientists that study fancy things like consciousness would call this ‘housekeeping’ but Dave calls it ‘Why You’re Not Dead Yet’. All the while, this information is filtered through Jackson’s, non-scientific comedy mind to help disseminate the information to the layidiot. Thanks for not laughing at disseminate.