The Myth of Free Will: Revised and expanded

Back in Episode 12 I reviewed the first edition of The Myth of Free Will: Revised & Expanded Edition (200 by Cris Evatt. I am proud to announce that I have a short chapter in the revised edition “My Brain Made Me Do It.” This essay is a reflection on the implications of [...]

Transcript of Episode 16 is now available

Episode 16 of Books and Ideas has been chosen as an Editor’s Pick by Pods in Print©. This means the transcript of Dr. Steven Novella’s interview is available when you sign up for a free 14-day trial of their podcast transcript service. Click here to learn more.
Note: I will not receive any royalties for this [...]

Please let me know if you find a bad audio link

The audio files for both of my podcasts are hosted on Libsyn and they have recently changed the addresses for people’s podcast audio files. Unfortunately this means that I probably have a lot of bad links floating around not just on this site, but in numerous other locations around the internet. I intend to try [...]

Meet me at the Podcast and New Media Expo

I am looking forward to my first Podcast and New Media Expo this week in Ontario, California. My goals are to learn a lot and to meet lots of new people. Obviously, I will be promoting the Brain Science Podcast and Books and Ideas, but I also hope to make contacts that could lead to [...]

New Blog Combines Show Notes for Both of my Podcasts

I have had requests from a few listeners to put all the show notes in one place, so I have started a new Blog that beginning tomorrow, August 9, 2007, will contain a combination of all posts for Books and Ideas and the Brain Science Blog and Podcast.
You can find this at http://docartemis.com/blog. If you [...]

Schedule Update

Today I posted a short audio to let my subscribers know that I am changing Books and Ideas to twice a month. Hopefully this will give me enough time to prepare high quality content.
The next episode of Books and Ideas will be out around February 1st. It is about the book Genereation: The Seventeenth-century Scientists [...]