David Eagleman on the Magic of the Brain

On this, the inaugural episode of The Dispatch Book Club, Sarah is joined by David ...

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On this, the inaugural episode of The Dispatch Book Club, Sarah is joined by David Eagleman, author of Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, for a fascinating conversation about how our brains work. This is the first in a series of three discussions exploring “thinking about thinking.”

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    BloggerBarbie

    Where is the link to the actual podcast? Just wondering!

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    Andrea Leane

    What a fascinating discussion!! Thanks so much for this.

    I have to add that my life as a newspaper page builder changed very little during the pandemic, except that my small world shrank a little. My department was the only one with a few working in the office. The remote lag was too annoying for me to work from home on a regular basis. I also could no longer shop at night but that probably was physically safer for me anyway. Health-wise, I'm not so sure since the stores have a lot fewer people in them at night so my chances of getting COVID would have been much less than having to trek to the store during daylight.

    Those who work late evenings and nights have weird lives anyway, so the pandemic definitely affected that some. I had a serious case of envy for those who could easily work from home or just take time off and enjoy their families. But I managed to keep my job, so I'm thankful.

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    Jordan Caruso

    Talk about makin a grand unified theory though, here it if

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      Jordan Caruso

      Is*

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    Jordan Caruso

    One amendment to your statement about military personnel. Active duty enlisted lives did get very different after pandemic started.

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