4.6 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2017
⏱️ 80 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to STEM Talk. |
0:01.2 | Stem Talk. |
0:01.4 | Stem Talk. |
0:03.3 | Stem Talk. |
0:03.7 | Stem Talk, where we introduce you to fascinating people who passionately inhabit the scientific |
0:11.2 | and technical frontiers of our society. |
0:14.3 | Hi, I'm your host, Don Cornagus, and joining me to introduce today's podcast as the man |
0:18.8 | behind the curtain, Dr. Ken Ford, IHMC's director and chairman of the double secret selection committee that selects all the guests to appear on STEM Talk. |
0:26.6 | Hi, Don, great to be here with you. Today's interview with Dr. Susanna Herculana Huzel was not only fascinating, but as you will hear, it was fun. |
0:36.6 | It was a lot of fun. Susanna is a Brazilian neuroscientist |
0:39.9 | who devised a way to count the number of neurons in human and animal brains. She calls it |
0:44.4 | brain soup. Bon Appetit. She writes about this in her book, The Human Advantage, a new understanding |
0:51.9 | of how our brains became remarkable. |
0:55.4 | Her method of counting the neurons of human and other animals' brains |
0:59.4 | allowed her to study the relationship between the cerebral cortex and the thickness and |
1:05.2 | number of cortical folds in the brain. |
1:08.1 | Before we get to today's interview with Susanna, we have some housekeeping to take care of. |
1:12.1 | First, we really appreciate all of you who have subscribed to STEM Talk, |
1:15.6 | and we are especially appreciative of all the wonderful five-star reviews that are piling up on iTunes. |
1:20.3 | As we announced in several earlier episodes, the Double Secret Selection Committee |
1:23.8 | has been continually and carefully reviewing the iTunes reviews, |
1:27.2 | with an eye towards |
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