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Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind
Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind
Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind
Audiobook4 hours

Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind

Written by Emily Anthes and Scientific American

Narrated by Oliver Wyman and Helen Litchfield

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About this audiobook

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.

A Macmillan Audio production.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherMacmillan Audio
Release dateDec 23, 2008
ISBN9781427207555
Instant Egghead Guide: The Mind
Author

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.

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