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Chantel Prat and Andrea Stocco are cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Washington whose work-life balance looks a bit different from the norm. Sparks flew when Chantel, a native Californian, and Andrea, a Northern Italian, first met to talk about brains over coffee during their postgraduate training in 2007. Now, after 16 years of marriage and an even longer history of mind-melding research collaborations, their dinner conversations flit from the importance of access to good tacos to ideas for demystifying inner space. Won't you join us for dinner?
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English
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12 episodes
since Aug. 3, 2025
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Like many of our best ideas, the threads that motivated this episode of Brains for Dinner (B4D) came from very different sources that converged on the power of language: a conference Chantel attended last week at Carnegie Mellon centered on how the human mind will be changed by AI; a conversation w…
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According to the Motion Picture Association of America, the average American spent 38 hours a week watching television shows or movies, 18 hours listening to music, and 8 hours reading books, magazines or newspapers in 2007. Though the types of entertainment we consume as a society have changed ove…
Wow—it might be the nostalgia talking, but this feels like one of the most important science communication moments I’ve been part of.
I mean it.
You see, I’ve been going through something… an identity defining moment in which I am thinking deeply about the “stuff” I’m putting out into the world, t…
I hope no one minds if I start this note with a picture of baby cows. I swear it’s at least a little bit relevant.
You see, yesterday, in the middle of a horsemanship clinic, I got the unexpected opportunity to connect with these two Miniature Highland Cows, Mac and Bowie, and it sent my dopamine …
Friends and family, real and virtual, we’re back after too long of a delay with our next episode of Brains for Dinner! We hope it was worth the wait.
We start this episode by sharing some of the big things that have been keeping us busy these past two months, including a series of milestones for An…
As far as Andrea and I are aware, no one really knows why humans spend 20-25% of our time asleep producing vivid, emotional, story-like hallucinations—our brains in states that mimic waking, while our bodies remain largely paralyzed and unable to act out these hallucinations. But philosophers, psyc…
B4D is back with a bang after a brief hiatus! We hope it was worth the wait :)
Though I rarely play favorites, this is definitely one of my favorite episodes so far… In it, Andrea and I talk about our personal experiences with what we call in the field phenomenological differences, or differences…
I think it’s fair to say that Episode 5 of B4D reaches new highs and lows of sophistication (and that’s saying something). From lessons in how to interpret statistics, to laughing fits spawned by burping dogs, this hour of content contains something for everyone.
Our musings were sparked by an arti…
Yesterday I was watching a talk about procrastination for book research (I wasn’t procrastinating, I swear). When the cameraperson panned the audience, I saw much younger versions of Andrea and I, and it gave me all the feels.
The talk was over a decade ago, and our lives were very different then—b…
I have good news and bad news and in our family we always do the bad new first so here goes…
Brains for Dinner Episode 3 does not come with a side order of dancing birds or babies! (never fear, you can always return to Episode 2 for this!) AND we went nearly 7 minutes over time. EEK!
The good news…
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