Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaisy Fancourt, "Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives" (Cornerstone Press, 2026)
Is culture good for you? In Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Save Lives (Cornerstone Press, 2026) Daisy Fancourt, a Professor of Psychobiology &…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Steve Ramirez, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past" (Princeton UP, 2025)
As a graduate student at MIT, Steve Ramirez successfully created false memories in the lab. Now, as a neuroscientist working at the frontiers of brai…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Justin Gregg, "If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity" (Little, Brown, 2022)
Episode 44
What if human intelligence is actually more of a liability than a gift? After all, the animal kingdom, in all its diversity, gets by just fine withou…
3 months ago
Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder: Confessions of a Former Badass
In Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder: Confessions of A Former Badass (Street Noise Books, 2025), Professor Cara Gormally draws us into the …
3 months ago
Marc Berman, "Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being" (Simon and Schuster, 2025)
Episode 157
Dr. Marc Berman, the pioneering creator of the field of environmental neuroscience, has discovered the surprising connection between mind, body, and …
3 months, 1 week ago
How to Make Your Brain Your Best Friend
Episode 306
Your brain is the most remarkable thing in the known universe. Always trying to mend itself, and always trying to protect you, it’s in a constant sta…
3 months, 1 week ago
Hans Van Eyghen, "The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 207
Hans Van Eyghen's book The Epistemology of Spirit Beliefs (Routledge, 2023) assesses whether belief in spirits is epistemically justified. It present…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Betty Milan, "Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Episode 228
Analyzed by Lacan: A Personal Account (Bloomsbury, 2023) brings together the first English translations of Why Lacan, Betty Milan's memoir of her ana…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Kevin J. Mitchell, "Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Episode 71
Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Philippe Huneman, "Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 414
Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? In Why?: The Philosophy Be…
3 months, 2 weeks ago