Guests Who Have Been on Books and Ideas

Here is an alphabetical listing of the guests who have been interviewed on Books and Ideas. It is up to date through February, 2010. Check the Show Notes for more recent Guests.

Click here for a chronological listing of previous episodes of Books and Ideas.

Dan Ariely, PhD: author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Episode 19)

Sue Bailey and Carmen Flowers: authors of Grave Expectations: Planning the End Like There’s No Tomorrow (Episode 26)

Tom Clark: author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses (Episode 30)

Matthew Cobb:  author of Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth (Episode 7)

Delany Dean, PhD: psychologist (Episode 20)

Kyla Duffy: founder of Happy Tails Books (Episode 33)

Pamela Gay, PhD: Host of the Astronomy Cast (Episode 14)

Jennifer Michael Hecht: Author of Doubt: A History (Episode 27)

Bruce Hood, PhD: Author of SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (Episode 34)

Les Johnson, PhD: NASA physicist and author of Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth (Episode 31)

Sheril Kirshenbaum: Marine biologist and co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future. (Episode 32)

Mur Lafferty: podcasting pioneer and author of Playing for Keeps (Episode 17)

Robert Martensen, MD: physician and author of A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era (Episode 28 and Episode 29)

Kirk Mcelhearn: American writer who has lived in France for many years (Episode 10)

Steven Novella, MD: Neurologist and host of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe (Episode 16)

Paul Offit, MD: Author of Autism’s False Prophets (Episode 25)

Patrick Pricken: was my first guest co-host in Episode 13

Robert Schleip, PhD: leads emerging research about fascia at the University of Ulm (Episode 15)

Eugenie Scott, PhD: Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (Episode 21)

Scott Sigler: Best-selling author of science fiction horror thrillers (Episode 35)

Lee M. Silver, PhD: author of Challenging Nature: The Clash Between Biotechnology and Spirituality (Episode 9)

Tabitha Grace Smith: writer, podcaster and creator of the Buffy Between the Lines audio drama (Episode 18)

Neel Varshney, MD, PhD: discusses his experiences as a Rhodes Scholar and as a medical student at Harvard (Episode 11)

Frank Wilczek: Nobel Prize winning physicist and author of Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces (Episode 23 and Episode 24)

Click here for a list of the guests who have been interviewed for the Brain Science Podcast.