# Jo Marchant
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jo marchant is a freelance journalist specializing in science and history. After gaining a BSc in genetics from Leicester University and a PhD in microbiology she became a science writer, and is the author of Decoding the Heavens, an exploration of the history and significance of the Antikythera mechanism, The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy and Cure: A Journey Into the Science of Mind Over Body(shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016). A former editor of the science journal Nature and opinion editor at New Scientist magazine in London, she has written for The Guardian and The Economist.Marchant writes that "the idea for Decoding the Heavens came about in November 2006, when I was an editor at the science journal Nature.
What Is “Now”? & How to Deal with Poisonous People
What if you followed people for 80 years—tracking their health, happiness, and relationships over a lifetime? That’s exactly what one of the longest-running studies ever has done, and what it reveals about how to live a good life may not be what you expect. https://www.adultdevelopmentstudy.org/
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654. Predictive Brains, Placebos, Awe, and the Mind–Matter Frontier with Jo Marchant
Jo Marchant is a science journalist and podcast host, and also the author of several books. Her latest works include In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment and Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body.
Greg and Jo discuss the shared threads across her work: a long view of th…
Merlin Sheldrake and Jo Marchant
Biologist and author Merlin Sheldrake (of 'Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures') is joined by the science journalist Jo Marchant (of 'Human Cosmos' and 'Cure') and presenter Harriett Gilbert.
Merlin picks 'The Age of Wonder' by Richard Holmes, a biogra…
Common Sense
This week, Sean Graham talks with Michael North, author of Making Common Sense: On the Construction of the Obvious from Antiquity to AI. They talk about what counts as 'common' sense, its relation to the 5 senses, and how that understanding shaped perceptions of common sense. They then get into a d…
7: Ep. 7 - The Deep
From the swirling waters of Tiamat to the Spirit hovering over the face of the Deep, this episode traces humanity's oldest creation stories in the primordial waters and asks what they can teach us today. What might it mean to co-create with the unknown depths - this fertile source from which all …
The Human Cosmos Audiobook by Jo Marchant
Listen to full audiobook for free : https://litupbook.com/free Title: The Human CosmosSubtitle: A Secret History of the StarsCategories: Physics, STEM, ScienceAuthor: Jo MarchantNarrator: Jo MarchantPublisher: Canongate BooksRelease date: 09-03-2020Language: EnglishSummary:For most of human history…
Jo Marchant – The Science and Mystery of the Present Moment
What if the present moment – the ‘now’– isn’t just a tick of the clock? We feel that the present is everything; all we can know, yet physics finds no universal 'now'. So where does that leave us – and what is the 'now' we experience? Drawing on state-of-the-art discoveries in neuroscience, psycholo…
#196: The Lives of Others (USA edition).
When I travel to foreign countries, I notice things.
The slight pull-back of a Norwegian’s shoulders that indicates I’ve invaded their personal space. How I get mysteriously taller whenever I journey from Scandinavia to Amsterdam to London. The NASA logo on locals’ t-shirts, no matter where in the …
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