" Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact". - Thomas Huxley
Jonah Lehrer is Editor at Large for Seed Magazine and the author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist. He graduated from Columbia University and studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Wired, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. Jonah is also a Contributing Editor at Scientific American Mind and National Public Radio's Radio Lab, and writes a highly regarded blog, The Frontal Cortex.
Jonah's latest book, The Decisive Moment, was published by Canongate in February.
First broadcast on 3rd April 2009.