Posted on March 10th, 2010 by docartemis
The free podcast version of Brain Science Podcast 67 is now available. It is an interview with German philosopher Thomas Metzinger, author of The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self and Being No One. Dr. Metzinger argues that any credible model for how the brain generates the mind [...]
Filed under: Brain Science Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, science | No Comments »
Posted on February 26th, 2010 by docartemis
Episode 35 of the Books and Ideas podcast is an interview with best-selling horror writer, Scott Sigler. Scott is widely admired for pioneering the use of podcasting to promote his fiction writing, but so far hasn’t gotten the recognition I think he deserves for incorporating hard science into his unique blend of horror and science [...]
Filed under: Books and Ideas Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, science | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 10th, 2010 by docartemis
Episode 66 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Randy Gallistel, PhD, Co-Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science and co-author (with Adam Philip King) of Memory and the Computational Brain: Why Cognitive Science will Transform Neuroscience. We discuss why read/write memory is an essential element of computation with an emphasis on [...]
Filed under: Brain Science Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, neuroscience, science | Comments Off
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 [...]
Filed under: Books and Ideas Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, neuroscience, science | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 13th, 2010 by docartemis
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 [...]
Filed under: Brain Science Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, announcements, interviews, neuroscience, science | Comments Off
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 [...]
Filed under: Books and Ideas Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, animals and pets, interviews | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
Filed under: Books and Ideas Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, politics, science | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 63 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with David Bainbridge, author of Teenagers: A Natural History. Our focus is on how the brain changes during the teenage years. Bainbridge teaches vetinary anatomy and reproductive biology at Cambridge University and has published several other popular science books including Beyond the Zonules of [...]
Filed under: Brain Science Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, neuroscience, science | Comments Off
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 [...]
Filed under: Books and Ideas Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, science | Comments Off
Posted on October 10th, 2009 by docartemis
Episode 62 of the Brain Science Podcast is an interview with Warren Brown, PhD, co-author (with Nancey Murphy) of Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?: Philosophical and Neurobiological Perspectives on Moral Responsibility and Free Will. This book was discussed in detail back in Episode 53, but this interview gave me a chance to [...]
Filed under: Brain Science Podcast, Podcast Show Notes, interviews, neuroscience | Comments Off
