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

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🗓️ 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	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WB EZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen, wherever you get your podcast.
0:35.3	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdad.
0:39.1	I'm Greta Johnson, and we have somehow made it to another Friday,
0:45.3	which means it is time to get ready for the weekend, and we are here to help. It's going to be a fun episode.
0:50.9	Today we are going to talk to a literal brain scientist about yes, brains, and... You will just sit there saying, this is the best cookie I've ever made. I guarantee it.
0:54.9	A legit cookie expert is going to tell us about the best holiday cookie of the year.
1:00.2	But first, we have a delightful panel to chat about the week that was.
1:04.8	Here today is NPR Books editor Barry Hardiman Berry.
1:08.0	Hello.
1:08.9	Hello.
1:09.4	Our other guest is Eliana Docterman, who writes about culture and
1:12.8	society for time. Eliana, hi. Hi. Thanks for having me. I am very excited to talk to both of you today.
1:19.7	So it seems like probably the biggest story of the week is the fact that some of the first COVID vaccines
1:25.9	in the U.S. were administered.
1:31.9	Healthcare workers and other high-risk people were at the top of that list.
1:36.7	It looks like people who aren't high-risk and who aren't, you know, over 65 probably won't get a vaccine until this spring at the earliest.
1:40.1	But, you know, also this week, another vaccine was approved by the FDA.
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