LIGHTS ON made it to Spotify’s top 10 nonfiction book list this year! Thanks to all my fellow consciousness nerds and everyone at Spotify for supporting this labor of love! This was a dream project for me.
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I’ve started a podcast feed for my audio documentary, LIGHTS ON, where you can now listen to previews from each chapter. Excerpts from every chapter on a wide range of topics—from the neuroscience of perception, to plant biology and behavior, to the physics of space and time—are now available wherever you listen to podcasts. Featuring guests such as Sara Imari Walker, David Eagleman, Anil Seth, Zoë Schlanger, Janna Levin, Brian Greene, Sean Carroll, and more…
I had a fun and in-depth discussion about my new documentary project LIGHTS ON with Alex on his “Within Reason” podcast.
In this episode of the Commune Podcast, Jeff Krasno sits down with New York Times bestselling author Annaka Harris to explore one of the most profound and enduring questions in science and philosophy: What is consciousness?
My new article, featured in the final chapter of LIGHTS ON, is available now!
Almost a century after the paradigm shift caused by Nicolas Copernicus’s radical suggestion that the Earth orbits the Sun, our scientific grasp of the universe was once again revolutionized when the proverbial apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head. Newton opened our eyes to a deeper reality when he described gravity as a pervasive force with laws that govern the attraction of objects in motion. Albert Einstein then came along and ignited yet another mind-blowing paradigm shift for humanity to grapple with. Einstein described gravity not as a force, but as a warping of four-dimensional spacetime where spacetime is the fabric of the universe. Once more, humanity was afforded a slightly more accurate window onto the universe…