A childhood dream of reaching the stars led Chris Fuchs to question the very foundations of physics ✨ Hear the full story on my podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…

Can plants think? Can they plan? 🌱 Cognitive scientist Paco Calvo takes us beyond physiology on my podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are: shows.acast.com/where-the-wild… #cognitivescience #plants

NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: THE POWER OF PLACEBOS Thank you to Gavin Francis and The New York Review of Books (The New York Review of Books) for the insightful review of my book, "The Power of Placebos." The fair and balanced review aligns with the conclusion that medicine needs a revolution to

Can quantum mechanics save reality? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/whe… #quantummechanics

Can a tiny part of the brain create ecstasy? ⚡ Neurologist Fabienne Picard on Where the Wild Thoughts Are talks ecstatic epilepsy, Dostoevsky, and what it reveals about perception and reality: shows.acast.com/where-the-wild… #neurology #consciousness #ecstaticepilepsy #sciencepodcast

Some may remember Apple's fin-de-siecle 'Think Different' campaign, which doffed a cap to the crazy ones who changed the world. My former New Scientist colleague Jo Marchant's new podcast, Where The Wild Thoughts Are, reminds me of that. Give it a listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/whe…

How to switch on BLISS: latest episode of Where the Wild Thoughts Are explores the ecstatic experiences triggered by a rare form of epilepsy, & how neurologists can reproduce them by stimulating a tiny part of the brain shows.acast.com/where-the-wild… #epilepsy #bliss #neurology #podcast

Looking forward to listening in to the wild thoughts of brilliant Jo Marchant!

Excited to share news of my upcoming book about the science of Now — an exploration of time, self and reality. Thank you Canongate for designing the beautiful cover! Writing this has been a long road (!) but now it’s finally starting to feel real… 😆🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/in-sea…

New episode! Computer scientist Brent Seales on his 20-year quest to achieve something everyone else thought was impossible: read the Herculaneum scrolls. shows.acast.com/where-the-wild… Image: Vesuvius Challenge #herculaneumscrolls #ai #papyrology #sciencepodcast #wildthoughts

I’m excited to be speaking at New Scientist Live next month, about the mysterious emotion of awe. Do come and join! I’ll be discussing what awe is, how and why it affects us so profoundly, and where to find more of it ✨ live.newscientist.com/nsl-london-202… New Scientist #awe #morewow

What convinced computer scientist Brent Seales to dedicate 20 years of his life to reading the unopenable Herculaneum Scrolls? Turns out it was the very first moment he saw them… Listen now on Where the Wild Thoughts Are, episode 5 UK Engineering shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…

Margaret Ahmad of the University of Sorbonne was one of the pioneers who helped to show how quantum effects enable living organisms to sense the Earth’s vanishingly weak magnetic field. Now she thinks the phenomenon could transform medicine ⚡️ Listen now: shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…

Can we learn to talk to whales? Tom Mustill, author of How to Speak Whale, discusses the exploding potential of technology, including AI, to understand their complex communications (and what it’s like to be caught beneath a falling humpback whale…) shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…

“Behind everything, there is a fundamental interconnectedness.” I chatted to neurologist Fabienne Picard - specialist in “ecstatic epilepsy” - about bliss, perception, and the nature of reality smithsonianmag.com/science-nature… #epilepsy #reality #perception #bliss

Placebo effects are NOT about expectation, or positive thinking, and you don’t have to believe you’re taking a real drug to feel better, says Harvard’s Ted Kaptchuk. I spoke to him about why placebos really work, and how to unlock our inner pharmacy shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…

Are living systems just collections of atoms, bound by basic laws of physics? Or does life rewrite the playing field, creating completely new possibilities? This week’s guest on Where the Wild Thoughts Are is cosmologist Marina Cortês shows.acast.com/where-the-wild… #cosmos #life

This week on Where the Wild Thoughts Are, we’re travelling deep into the Neolithic underworld, confronting fearsome predators and communing with ancestor spirits at the 12,000-year-old megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…

Ever feel like your brain could be doing, well, more?! Neuroscientist and psychotherapist Selen Atasoy shares the secrets of creative, complex awareness shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…

Wonderful to chat to Selen Atasoy for Where the Wild Thoughts Are, about consciousness, chaos and the harmonies of the brain shows.acast.com/where-the-wild…