Dr. Pamela Gay talks about the Milky Way on Brains Matter

Dr. Pamela Gay, host of the popular Astronomy Cast was interviewed for the latest episode of Brains Matter. In this interview Dr. Gay discusses the recent discovery that our Milky Way has only two arms instead of four. I recommend this episode to everyone who enjoyed Pam’s interview in Episode 14 of Books and [...]

Books and Ideas Podcast #21: Interview with Eugenie Scott

Eugenie Scott, the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, was interviewed in Episode 21 of Books and Ideas. The focus of our conversation was the importance of teaching evolution in the public schools. Dr. Scott and the NCSE have worked for over 20 years to promote the teaching of evolution because [...]

Could the Eye Evolve? The answer is Yes!

I have been meaning to recommend the excellent website Expelled Exposed, which documents all the lies and misleading statements in Ben’s Stein’s creationist “documentary,” Expelled. A central claim is that professors who believe in intelligent design are being persecuted, a claim that is totally unfounded. Expelled Exposed was created by the National Center for Science [...]

Embracing the Evidence for Evolution is not Always Easy

This week’s Science magazine includes a profile of Canadian paleontologist Stephen Godfrey. What makes his story unusual is that he was raised as a fundamentalist Christian to believe in the creationist dogma of a 6,000 year-old earth. The article highlights why it can be very difficult to make such a transition since it also makes [...]

Books and Ideas #16: Interview with Dr. Steven Novella from The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

Episode 16 of Books and Ideas is a conversation with Dr. Steven Novella from the popular podcast The Skeptics Guide to the Universe. This interview is a response to numerous requests from fans of the Brain Science Podcast, but I put it in the Books and Ideas feed so that Dr. Novella could share [...]

Additional Reference links from Robert Schleip, PhD

Robert Schleip, PhD of the University of Ulm in Germany was a guest on Books and Ideas episode 15.
His personal website is http://www.somatics.de/
Here are some additional links to supplement those in the original show notes:
General site on fascia related research
Wikipedia entries (English)

Proprioception
Rolfing
Structural Integration
Dr. Ida Rolf, founder of Rolfing
Myofibroblast-the active component of fascia

Rolf Institute for Structural [...]

Mini-Review: Flock of Dodos, a film by Randy Olson

I bought a DVD of the recent documentary, Flock of Dodos, after hearing director Randy Olson interviewed on Skepticality. What sets this film apart is both its sense of humor and its balance. Olson allows people on both sides of the evolution versus intelligent design controversy to speak for themselves. While he makes his position [...]

Books and Ideas Podcast #14: Dr. Pamela Gay from Astronomy Cast

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Show Notes for Books and Ideas Podcast #14
This episode is a conversation with Dr. Pamela Gay from the Astronomy Cast. Dr. Gay teaches astronomy and physics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Before the Astronomy Cast she was one of the hosts of one of the first science podcasts, Slacker Astronomy. I think her [...]

Lee Smolin looks at the Einstein Myth

I haven’t tried to read Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Einstein because I found his biography of Benjamin Franklin insufferably boring. So I consider myself still on the search for a good biography of the most imp0rtant physicist of the 20th century.
Meanwhile, I can highly recommend physicist’s Lee Smolin’s essay, The Other Einstein, which appeared [...]

Books and Ideas Podcast #9: Challenging Nature with Lee M Silver

This week’s podcast is a discussion of the book Challenging Nature: The Clash of Science and Spirituality at the New Frontiers of Life, with author Lee M. Silver of Princeton University. I am also putting this episode into the Brain Science Podcast feed.
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