301 - Steve Silberman (Author/Science Journalist)
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2018
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, the MIT Technology Review, Nature, Salon, Shambhala Sun, and many other publications. He is the author of NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Avery 2015), which Oliver Sacks called a “sweeping and penetrating history…presented with a rare sympathy and sensitivity.” Follow Steve on Twitter: @stevesilberman.
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| 0:00.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
| 0:02.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
| 0:04.0 | Radio Manu, Papa Tzango. |
| 0:29.0 | Greetings, earthlings. |
| 0:31.0 | This is your host, Chris. |
| 0:33.0 | You're listening to tangentially speaking a commercial free zone, a zone in which I am not trying to sell you any damn thing. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to one of the few places left. |
| 0:46.0 | I consider it a sort of a national park for the mind. |
| 0:50.0 | So, glad you're here. |
| 0:52.0 | This episode is with a fascinating dude, Steve Silberman. |
| 0:56.0 | He's a science journalist, probably best known for a book he just published a couple of years ago. |
| 1:05.0 | I think maybe two years ago called Neurotribes. |
| 1:07.0 | It was a New York Times bestseller. |
| 1:10.0 | He hugely admired piece of work. |
| 1:12.0 | I haven't seen any review of it that wasn't downright glowing. |
| 1:19.0 | And I can understand why he's a really nice guy, as you'll hear. |
| 1:23.0 | Very thoughtful, funny, highly intelligent, not much. |
| 1:31.0 | Can't think of anything bad to say about the guy. |
| 1:34.0 | I really enjoyed sitting down with him and it was one of these wonderful podcast situations where we connected. |
| 1:41.0 | Actually, we connected a long time ago. |
| 1:43.0 | I think he reached out to me for some sort of, I think, for an interview for the book. |
| 1:48.0 | And we talked on Skype a long time, five, six years ago. |
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