Carl Schoonover (Photo by Elaine Zhang)To kick off our new season of The Beautiful Brain Podcast, host Noah Hutton sits down with Carl Schoonover, author of “Portraits of the Mind,” a stunning collection of beautiful images of the brain publi

PODCAST: The Philosophy of Art and Mind

Sep 13th, 2010

In this month’s podcast we proudly present a conversation with the outspoken artist and author Garry Kennard. Kennard’s art has been featured in many gallery shows in Paris and the U.K., and he’s also written extensively about the art and mind

PODCAST: The Magic Forest

Aug 22nd, 2010

This month we’re proud to feature a conversation with British artist Andrew Carnie, whose work explores scientific themes and the representation of the self through scientific imagery. We’re also featuring an exclusive online gallery of his wor

The Persistence of Illusion

Jul 12th, 2010

The Persistence of Illusion | The Beautiful Brain Podcast, July 2010“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”This month, as our focus turns to cognitive science, we take our podcast title from the famous Einstein quote. R

PODCAST: The Keepers of Memory

Jun 12th, 2010

Todd Sacktor (Photo: Fred Conrad for the New York Times)How does a constellation of neurons store a memory over time? Why do some memories degrade, while others always feel like they happened yesterday? Could this system of storage be selectiv

PODCAST: Brushstrokes to Cells

May 4th, 2010

Bevil Conway is truly an artist and a scientist. Now a professor at Wellesley College, Conway has studied painting at McGill and neuroscience at Harvard, where he went on to do his Ph.D. work in the lab of Margaret Livingstone studying the neur

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