"Personally, I think consciousness is one of the greatest, most remarkable puzzles left to science. Understanding how this three-pound meatloaf is capable of producing experience is just remarkable." - Jonathan Schooler
This week on Living Lab Radio:
- Howard Herzog of MIT has literally written the book about carbon capture technology. He says the main stumbling block to pulling carbon dioxide out of power plant exhaust isn’t technological, it’s political.
- Biologist Dan Greenberg says a fungus known as Bd is the most destructive pathogen ever, from a biodiversity perspective. It’s the culprit behind the decline or extinction of more than five hundred amphibian species worldwide.
- Neuroscientist Jonathan Schooler was a daydreamer as a kid, and now he studies the process of mind wandering. Far from a waste of time, it can aid in learning and creative problem-solving, and may hold clues to the nature of consciousness.
Robert Thorson’s Guide to Walden Pond connects the dots between Thoreau’s enduringly popular Walden and the place it has made famous.
