I especially enjoyed Dennis Cass’ new book, Head Case, where he shows how we can all learn much more about the brains we cart around. He makes it fun - and he doesn't pretend to have all the answers.
You could say that Cass narrows the gaps though ... between science which insists on jargon few understand ... and well articulated remarks that unpack the human side of science and draw in intelligent readers to engage both science and humanity.
Would you agree there is an uncharted place between what it means to be human and what we've constructed as science?
Cass describes his own bumbling and often humorous mistakes to wend his way along research paths and to apply neuroscience notions at his workplace. Yet this wonderful read also shows a thoughtful journey deep into two world that many people observe from frustrating edges of both.
Cass raises the question…”What’s at the heart of fear, stress and addiction?”
He poses several similar questions that spike curiosity from the scientist mind in all of us as well as the humanist sides that leave room for growth in both. In searching out answers both author and readers change several unexamined worldviews about humor, compassion, and other traits of the mind that can turn around financial problems as well as emotional hardships.
You could say this book offers a rather simplified view of a wonderfully complex topic - in brilliant prose. It reminds me that we are fearfully and wonderfully made whenever I remember to try and understand my brain as Cass inspired. You?
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