Narrative Medicine

Why you should distrust your senses

29 Jul 2010

Before listening to this podcast, for best results we recommend you watch this short YouTube video . Daniel Simons joins us from a studio in Illinois to discuss his new book The Invisible Gorilla . We look at how our intuition deceives us and the problems this causes for the judicial system. Daniel also reveals why criminals and chess players are more alike than they'd like to believe. More than ...

Mapping the mountain of human DNA

27 Jul 2010

Veteran science writer Victor McElheny recounts the fascinating story of how our genome came to be mapped in Drawing the Map of Life

'Tis The Season For 'The Thousand Autumns'

26 Jul 2010

Stories about sober, upstanding Dutch trading clerks on assignment in Tokugawa-era Japan aren't exactly trendy in the publishing industry ... but that didn't stop David Mitchell. Critic Michael Schaub finds Mitchell's latest novel so inventive and complex that he expects it to easily qualify as one of the best books of 2010.