Episode 299 - Neuroscientist Dean Burnett

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Dean Burnett (@garwboy) is a neuroscientist, comedian, blogger and author of the new book Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why, and he Skyped in with Matt and Andy to talk about the book, delving into the complex relationship that happiness and human brains have with work, love, fame, home, humor, aging and much more.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Hey everyone, welcome to a Skype edition of Probably Science.
0:14.3	I'm Matt Kirshan.
0:15.5	I'm Andy Wood.
0:16.4	We are joined by someone...
0:18.6	So when I first met doing Robin Inns' sciencey shows in london friend of the show
0:24.0	robinence because he's a neuroscientist who also overlaps with the comedy world and this is his second
0:30.9	book it's called happy brain where happiness comes from and why it's dean burnett how's it going dean
0:36.2	i'm fine thanks man um currently in
0:38.9	cardiff where i live in the uk in middle of a heat wave so i'm rather you know perspiring right now
0:43.9	so i'm glad it's as more of a remote connection because it would be unpleasant for all concerned
0:47.7	if i was there right now i i'm getting all of yeah i mean it's uh how hot is a cardiff heatwave
0:53.6	what qualifies?
0:54.5	Because I'm seeing various messages, Facebook posts of the like, from my friends back home,
0:59.7	who are panicking on account of it having hit.
1:03.4	Yeah, well, I'm currently sat in my office in my garden.
1:06.2	I've got a wooden cabin.
1:07.8	People call it a shed, but it's technically a cabin because it's built for human habitation and not
1:11.7	for general storage.
1:12.6	That's apparently the definition.
1:14.6	But, yeah, I have lots of acoustic soundproofing tiles, but stuff like this.
1:18.6	And they've actually melted.
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