launching fall 2009

We need serious mind power to comprehend nature's most complex system, the human brain. [Brainy] brings together a dream team of journalists, scientists, science writers and academics. Our goal: process diverse, accelerating data streams into real insights.

 

	Pulitzer-prize winning science writer Deborah Blum is a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of Ghost Hunters.
	A professor of bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, Art Caplan is the author of twenty five books and hundreds of journal articles and helps guide Americans through murky ethical waters.
	The man behind the popular Neurophilosophy blog, Moheb Costandi is a graduate student in neuroscience at University College London.
	Science writer Maryn McKenna is the author of the critically acclaimed book Beating Back the Devil and the forthcoming Superbug (Spring 2010).
	Andrew Newberg is Director of the Center for Spirituality and Mind at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is a practicing radiologist, and author of four books including How God Changes Your Brain.
	Author of acclaimed books like Why People Believe Weird Things, Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic Magazine and a columnist for Scientific American.
	Science historian John Galbraith Simmons is the author of the well-regarded medical history volume Doctors and Discoveries as well as The Scientific 100, where he ranked the most influential scientists.
	Maia Szalavitz is a widely published science writer (TIME, Washington Post, Scientific American Mind), who is also  co-author of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook.
	Bestselling writer Carl Zimmer's treatment of brain science, Soul Made Flesh, is one of the most popular science books this century. Other works, like Microcosm and Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, have earned him a diverse and devoted audience.

 

...and many more. Presented with support from the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders at Washington University in St. Louis and in partnership with Publish2.

 

Produced by Ford Vox