Instant Egghead Guide The Mind, Emily Anthes
Instant Egghead Guide The Mind, Emily Anthes
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Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind

Author: Emily Anthes, Steve Mirsky, Scientific American

Narrator: Oliver Wyman, Helen Litchfield

Unabridged: 4 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/23/2008

Synopsis

Everything from neurons to consciousness in the blink of an eye (which takes 300 milliseconds).

Take a "fantastic voyage" through the whorls and curves of the human brain, no miniaturization required. Learn everything from how quickly you can possibly think (and that left-handed people think faster) to why being bad feels so good (yes, there's a biochemical explanation).
Whether you're a fan of Scientific American's wildly popular "60-Second Science" podcast or just curious about science, you're going to love the tingly way your synapses feel after enjoying the same bite-sized knowledge in The Instant Egghead Guide to the Mind.

About Emily Anthes

EMILY ANTHES is a freelance science journalist. Her work has appeared in Seed, Scientific American Mind, Discover, Slate, Good, New York, and the Boston Globe. She has a master's degree in science writing from MIT and a bachelor's degree in the history of science and medicine from Yale, where she also studied creative writing. She is the author of Frankenstein's Cat: Cuddling Up to Biotech's Brave New Beasts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About Steve Mirsky

Steve Mirsky has written the Anti-Gravity column for Scientific American since 1995. In 2006 he launched the daily Scientific American podcast, 60-Second Science, with tens of thousands of listeners and millions of downloads to date.

About Scientific American

Scientific American is the award-winning authoritative source for the science discoveries and technology innovations that matter.

About Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman, a native New Yorker, has appeared on stage as well as in film, and television. He is one of the founders of New York City's Collective Unconscious theater, and his performances include the award-winning “reality play” Charlie Victor Romeo and A.R. McElhinney's cult classic film A Chronicle of Corpses. He also lent his voice to several episodes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Oliver's work as a narrator extends to over 150 audiobooks and has won many him awards, including Audie awards for his reading of Lance Armstrong's autobiography, It's Not About the Bike, and Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat. He also read James Frey's A Million Little Pieces, Tim Dorsey's Atomic Lobster, and David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder. Oliver has won five Audie Awards from the Audio Publisher's Association, fourteen Earphone Awards from AudioFile Magazine, and two Listen Up Awards from Publisher's Weekly. Oliver was named a 2008 Best Voice in Nonfiction & Culture by AudioFile Magazine.

About Helen Litchfield

Helen Litchfield has read several titles by David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim, including The Intellectual Devotional, The Intellectual Devotional: American History, and The Intellectual Devotional: Modern Culture, which was a 2009 Audies Finalist.  Along with William Dufris, she also narrated Mariette DiChristina's Brainstorm.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Pierre on March 20, 2017

Not one star because for people who know absolutely nothing about the subject it is an OK overview of the topics and terminology.......more

Goodreads review by janice moore on June 17, 2016

Dummies book on the Brain Extraordinary info for laymen and Very helpful for an aging male. I currently am beginning to have memory problems but my ability to collect and understand information is still good. Great to learn that some of my memory concerns are natural and most likely due to aging. Tha......more

Goodreads review by Dgg32 on July 23, 2011

A simple book about our brain. Easy to follow, good for non-neuroscienst. However, there are too many unknown about our mind, how it functions and its chemical natural, a lot of the topics are still only speculations. The book handles such uncertainty well: it provides with references and appears to......more

Goodreads review by Hasinah on February 27, 2013

it good in explaining the brains in a simpler way! and its fun!......more

Goodreads review by Vader on June 06, 2021

5 star - Perfect 4 star - i would recommend 3 star - good 2 star - struggled to complete 1 star - could not finish......more

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