
Ginger Campbell, MD host of the highly rated Brain Science Podcast, uses this podcast to explore her love of reading and ideas, including science, philosophy, history, and what ever else she is reading. This podcast comes out about once a month and often contains interviews of authors and scientists. Check booksandideas.com for details.
| Publishes | Monthly | Episodes | 87 | Founded | 19 years ago |
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| Categories | Society & CultureScience | ||||

This episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with David Shariatmadari author of "Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language." We explore some of the common myths about language. This includes a follow up of our recent discussion on ... more
Several years ago I interviewed Terrence Deacon about his fascinating book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. His goal was to propose a theory of how purpose evolved in a universe without purpose. His argument was persuasive, but highly... more
This episode of Books and Ideas is a follow up of my previous interview of Becky Hale, past-president of the American Humanist Association (AHA). I am fascinated by the relationship between modern Humanism and Unitarian Universalism. Listen to my int... more
This month's episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with astronomer Brian Keating about his memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor. His book is a first hand look at the hard work b... more
This is such a gem of a podcast, I’m so glad I finally discovered this!
I love listening to the Books and Ideas Podcast with Dr. Campbell while going about my day. Also, I learn about many subjects and books I would not have investigated on my own. Good to expand my brain and horizons!
Great Scientists + Interesting Books + Great Host = Can't go wrong mix
This Podcast is a great Podcast and is of interest to people who are interested in Neuro science and our minds and other science specialty but written in a lay mans easy to understand. I feel it is the companion to the brain Science Podcast.
Ginger I think this Podcast’s name does it a disservice because I would never guess the content of the Podcast from the name! I would probably think it was about literature and not science. I only found it because you mention it on Brain Science. Perhaps it... more
Like so many of her guests, Panksepp is again someone who asks the right questions of how we work. His answers and findings are a foundation on how we work. How come the rest of us don't get to work and play in such an important area for answers? Brilliant.
So many of her other guests contribute to this picture of how we work.
They are all on her guest list because she asks the right questions, and so recognises the valuable contributors.
I should write the same praise for her other 50 guests.










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