This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain This Weekend Eating The Year's Best Holiday Cookie.

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

You’ve made it through another week in the year 2020. Congratulations!

Join Nerdette for a look back at the week in vaccines, virtual holiday parties and Greta’s new favorite ridiculous TV show, The Wilds, alongside TIME Magazine’s Eliana Dockterman and NPR’s Barrie Hardymon.

Then we have an amazing conversation about your brain — yes, yours — and how tired it gets when you make it lug your body around all day. Lisa Feldman Barrett is the neuroscientist responsible for Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, a lovely book of brain essays. She gives us one and a half lessons for free.

And finally, what’s the best holiday cookie of 2020? Bon Appetit senior staff writer Alex Beggs tells us — OK fine, it’s this one — but she also gives us plenty of warnings (i.e. level of difficulty = 11). Join us!

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events.
0:15.6	From W be easy Chicago this is Nurdette I'm Greta Johnson and we have somehow
0:22.0	made it to another Friday which means it is time to get
0:25.4	ready for the weekend and we are here to help.
0:28.8	It's going to be a fun episode today.
0:30.4	We are going to talk to a literal brain scientist about, yes, brains, and...
0:35.0	You will just sit there saying this is the best cookie I've ever made.
0:38.0	I guarantee it.
0:39.0	A legit cookie expert is going to tell us about the best holiday cookie of the year. But first we have a
0:45.9	delightful panel to chat about the week that was. Here today is NPR Books editor Barry Hardiman.
0:52.0	Barry, hello. Our other guest... is NPR Books Editor Books editor Barry Hardiman Barry.
0:52.6	Hello.
0:54.2	Our other guest is Eliana Doctorman
0:56.3	who writes about culture in society for time.
0:58.5	Eliana, hi.
0:59.8	Hi, thanks for having this.
1:01.2	I am very excited to talk to both of you today.
1:04.5	So it seems like probably the biggest story of the week
1:08.1	is the fact that some of the first COVID vaccines
1:10.6	in the US were administered, health care workers and other high-risk people.
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