Posted on January 27th, 2010 by docartemis
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 [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 33 of Books and Ideas an interview with Kyla Duffy, the founder of Happy Tails Books where she publishes stories about dog rescue. Her goal is to raise awareness of the plight of puppy mill dogs and to raise funds for a wide variety of canine rescue organizations. I discovered her work through [...]
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Posted on November 25th, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 32 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-author (with Chris Mooney) of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future. The focus of our interview was on why it is increasingly important that scientists become skilled at communicating what we do to political leaders and to our fellow citizens. [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2009 by docartemis
Last week I announced the new iPhone (and iPod Touch) application for the Brain Science Podcast. This week we are launching a similar application for the Books and Ideas podcast. It features access to all episodes the episodes going back to December 2006, episode transcripts, and direct links to this website, my email and [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 31 of Books and Ideas is an interview with NASA physicist Les Johnson, PhD. We talked about his new book Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth. Although Dr. Johnson is a lifelong fan of science fiction he challenges the common assumption that eventually we will pollute or damage the earth so badly that [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 30 of Books and Ideas is an interview with Tom Clark, the head of the Center for Naturalism and author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses. I first became aware of Clark’s work when I reviewed Chris Evatt’s book The Myth of Free Will back in Episode 12.
In this interview we [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2009 by docartemis
I just started a new Facebook Fan Page for the Books and Ideas podcast. If you listen to the podcast I hope you will join. I hope to use the page as a launching pad for promoting the podcast to a larger audience.
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Posted on June 28th, 2009 by docartemis
I have just posted a brief announcement in the feed for my Books and Ideas podcast. I have decided to take a break for the rest of the summer.
This will allow me to catch up on some professional activities (re-certifying my ACLS and ATLS) and perhaps get some other new projects off the ground. [...]
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Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by docartemis
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 [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2009 by docartemis
Books and Ideas #28 is an interview with Robert Martensen, MD, author of A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era. Dr. Martensen worked for 25 years as an emergency physician, but about mid-way through his career he went to graduate school and earned a PhD in history, while [...]
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