Books to get inside your head: Tim Parks picks the smartest books about the brain
Is consciousness internal, readable, even uploadable? Does it exist in the external world? Here are some mind-bending reads that have the answers
December 2017
Self and wellbeing
Creation history: brilliant ideas build on the past
Creativity doesn’t come out of the blue, it starts by remodelling the past, say David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt
December 2015
On my radar
On my radar: Ruby Wax’s cultural highlights
The comedian and campaigner on great theatre, David Eagleman, the brilliance of Radiohead, TED talks and a thriller you just can’t put down
November 2015
Meet the author
David Eagleman: ‘Humans are real storytelling animals’
Science Weekly
The story of our brains - podcast
June 2012
Science Weekly
Science Weekly podcast: David Eagleman on Sum, the opera
Neuroscientist and short story writer David Eagleman discusses his Royal Opera House debut, and why he believes brain science will change how our legal system treats criminals
April 2012
The brain… it makes you think. Doesn't it?
Are we governed by unconscious processes? Yes, says neuroscientist David Eagleman, while Raymond Tallis argues that the human condition is a lot more complicated than that
March 2012
Secrets of good science writing
Science writing that sucks you into the mind of a murderer
Penny Sarchet, winner of last year's Science Writing Prize, is engrossed by a collection of grisly tales that demonstrate the limitations of free will
December 2011
2011 in review
Books for giving: psychology
VS Ramachandran examines empathy, evil torments autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen, and Darian Leader persists in some silly ideas… luckily, Lisa Appignanesi gives us a big hug, writes Alexander Linklater
April 2011
Incognito by David Eagleman – review
David Eagleman offers startling lessons in neuroscience
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman – review
Neuroscientist David Eagleman gives a breathless account of advances in our understanding of the brain but offers little real food for thought, writes Alexander Linklater
Science Weekly
Science Weekly podcast: Hard-wired prejudices, and 50 years in space
David Eagleman suggests prejudices may be hard-wired into our brains; a new real-time film celebrating 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space; plus, Brian Greene asks this week's 'Hannaford question'
December 2010
The networker
Publishers take note: the iPad is altering the very concept of a 'book'
If the success of Amazon's Kindle has made print publishers relax, they're in for a nasty surprise, says John Naughton
David Eagleman's Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlife has been called 'as surprising a book as I've read in years' by Brian Eno. Here the neuroscientist tells Sean O'Hagan why we just don't know what happens when we die ...
September 2009
Sum: Forty tales from the afterlives by David Eagleman
