On this week’s show, we’re getting emotional. Our guest, neuroscientist Dean Burnett, talks about his new book Emotional Ignorance. He shares how the experience of his father’s death during covid prompted him to take on his emotions by writing about them. We talk about the sad, such as why people cry, but also travel across a wide range of emotions including strange emotional experiences such as nightmares. And we dive into the complexity of emotions, from defining them to how they arise in the brain and connections with the body.
#642 The Last Episode
#641 The Last Nerd Gift Guide
#640 The Last Science Book Club
#639 The One About Periods
#638 Do you feel love? What about ecstasy?
#637 A special announcement
#636 Life on an unruly planet
#635 Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
#634 Back to the future
#633 An Ice History
#632 We are what we eat
#631 Tenacious Beasts
#630 The Jewel Box
#629 How birds go the distance
#628 Brave the Wild River
#627 Ancient Migrations
#626 Our Friend, the Wasp
#625 This one really is about aliens
#624 The Devil’s Element
#623 Peopling the Americas
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