Books and Ideas Podcast #29: Dr. Robert Martensen Returns

In Episode 29 of Books and Ideas Robert Martensen, MD returns to talk about his book A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era. Last month we talked about Dr. Martensen’s career as both an emergency physician and as an historian. This month we concentrate on the issues facing [...]

Brain Science Podcast #57: Chris Frith, PhD

Episode 57 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with neuropsychologist Dr. Chris Frith, author of Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World. Our brain processes information about the world outside us (via our senses) in the same way that it processes information from within our bodies and from [...]