Robert Burton, the physician and authour, sits down this week with the Brainiac bookclub to discuss some of the ideas encapsulated in his most recent...
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This week on the Brainiac book club we're all about trying to teach ourselves better ways to, well, teach! Dr. Mariale Hardiman, a professor at John...
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Carl Schoonover is a great example of how a person can very seamlessly and effectively weave art and science into their daily life. As...
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You'll notice this week that Carl Schoonover appears both in the broadcast and on our Brainiac book club, where we feature his beautiful book Portraits...
Hahaha! You'll be laughing when you realize all the misunderstandings we have about laughter, what it means, and where it comes from.Why do speakers laugh...
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In this week's segment for the Brainiac Book Club we get wild. Into the wild... the natural... the utterly none urban that is. ...
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Neuroscientist Dr. Read Montague is the authour of Your Brain is (Almost) Perfect: How We Make Decisions. This week on the Brainiac Book Club, he...
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"The mind is what the brain does." This has become a useful idea that many neuroscientists use to explain the parsing between mind and brain,...
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Dr. Daniel Levitin of McGill University has written several books that touch on music and the brain. He is best known for This Is Your...
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Roberta had the chance to ask neuroscientist Gordon Shepherd about how he discovered the ways in which our brains create our experience of flavour, a...
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Brain books giveaway!The good people over at CBC Books have made a great list of brain books to kickstart our Brainiac Book Club. It's complete with...
The Brainiac book club this week is looking at getting our brains in shape. Boot camp for our brains by a nicer name: brain...
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