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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 31 days 7 hours
episode 4: Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)
Chater contends just the opposite: rather than being the plaything of unconscious currents, the brain generates behaviors in the moment based entirely on our past experiences...
episode 1: Jessica Pierce, "Run, Spot, Run: The Ethics of Keeping Pets" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
What obligations do we have to our pets?
episode 25: Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You" (HMH, 2020)
Kinzler argues that the way we talk is central to our social identity because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children...
episode 45: David Haig, "From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life" (MIT Press, 2020)
Evolutionary biologist David Haig explains how a physical world of matter in motion gave rise to a living world of purpose and meaning...
episode 52: David J. Hand, "Dark Data: Why What You Don't Know Matters" (Princeton UP, 2020)
What you don't know can, in fact, hurt you...
episode 1: György Buzsáki, "The Brain from Inside Out" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Buzsáki contrasts what he terms the ‘outside-in’ and ‘inside-out’ perspectives on neuroscientific theory and research methodology.
episode 24: Adam Rutherford, "How to Argue With a Racist" (The Experiment, 2020)
Rutherford emphatically dismantles outdated notions of race by illuminating what modern genetics actually can and can’t tell us about human difference....
episode 78: Steven Shapin, "The Scientific Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2018)
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins...
episode 77: David Bressoud, "Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Bressoud takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into the subject we know today...
episode 23: Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020)
Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?