Books and Ideas #34: Bruce Hood, author of SuperSense

Episode 34 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Bruce M Hood, author of SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable.Dr. Hood is a developmental psychologist with a long-standing interest in why people believe weird things. In SuperSense he argues that innate cognitive structures (how we think without being taught) give people a natural [...]

Brain Science Podcast #65: Jaak Panksepp

Episode 65 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Jaak Panksepp, PhD, author of Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions. Dr. Panksepp has done pioneering work on the neural origins of emotions. In this interview we discuss how his work challenges some of the common assumptions about emotions and [...]

Please Help Support Podcaster Tee Morris

Natalie Morris, wife of Tee Morris, fiction writer and author of Podcasting For Dummies died unexpectedly yesterday. Tee has a seven year-old daughter.
Tee is one the people who helped me get started in podcasting. I know I can’t do anything to lesson the pain he feels, but thanks to Scott Sigler I can contribute to [...]

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