This is lucid, funny and smart: in short, the best kind of popular science. alcohol can sometimes improve your memory?ĭean Burnett’s unpredictable and entertaining first book explores the unexpected side of everyday life, highlighting where conventional thinking is wrong and how our brains trip us up at every turn. In this witty and informative debut, popular Guardian science blogger and sometime stand-up comedian Burnett (Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences/Cardiff Univ. Dean Burnett: The Idiot Brain Brilliant Miller 2.5K subscribers Subscribe 84 4.6K views 2 years ago My conversation today is with Dean Burnett.the way the brain’s processing works means that time really does fly if you’re having fun? Dean is the author of the the popular Guardian Science blog ‘ Brain Flapping ’ (now ‘ Brain Yapping ’ on the Cosmic Shambles Network), the bestselling books The Idiot Brain, The Happy Brain, Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up The Wall And What To Do About It, and Psycho-Logical.the brain’s limitations mean you really can miss something that’s right under your nose?.conspiracy theories and superstitions stem from your brain’s insistence that the world isn’t random?.stress can actually increase your performance at a task?.In The Idiot Brain, Dean Burnett celebrates the downright laughable things our minds do to us, as well as exposing the fact that people are often way off in their thinking about how the brain works.
The genesis of Idiot Brain is unusual in that Dean Burnett hadnt actually planned. It’s undeniably impressive, but it’s far from perfect, and these imperfections influence everything that humans say, do and experience. Dr Dean Burnett is a PhD Neuroscientists, experienced tutor and lecturer, regular blogger/contributor for the Guardian and other mainstream publications, and now international bestselling author following his debut book The Idiot Brain Idiot Brain in the US). The brain may be the seat of consciousness and the engine of all human experience, but it’s also messy, fallible and disorganized.
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