Alphabetical listing of the guests interviewed on Books and Ideas

(In reverse order - most recent first - through April 2020)

Dan Ariely, PhD: author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Episode 19)Amos Bailey, MD: pioneer in palliative medicine  (Episode 56)

Adele Brand: author of The Hidden World of the Fox (BI 72)

Sue Bailey and Carmen Flowers: authors of Grave Expectations: Planning the End Like There’s No Tomorrow (Episode 26)

Ryder Carroll: author of The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future (Episode 64)

Anthony Chemero, PhD: co-author of Phenomenology: An Introduction.  (Episode 59)

Tom Clark: author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses (Episode 30)

Matthew Cobb:  author of Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth (Episode 7); author of Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code (Episode 60)

Jody Cole: Founder of Wild Rainbow African Safaris (Episode 65)

Liz Covart: Host of Ben Franklin’s World, a podcast about early American history (BI 70)

Terrence Deacon, PhD, author of Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (Episode 47)

Delany Dean, PhD: psychologist (Episode 20)

Kyla Duffy: founder of Happy Tails Books (Episode 33)

Christiana Ellis: author of Nina Kimberly the Merciless (Episode 38)

Elsie Escobar: co-host of The Feed and She Podcasts (Episode 57)

Peter Etchells, PhD: author of Lost in a Good Game (Episode 68)

Lillian Faderman: author of Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death (Episode 67)

Pamela Gay, PhD: Host of the Astronomy Cast (Episode 14 and Episode 69)

Daniel George, PhD: co-author of The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Episode 36)

Jonathan Gottschall, PhD: Author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Episode 48)

Becky Hale:  President of The American Humanist Association (Episode 53)

Jennifer Michael Hecht: Author of Doubt: A History (Episode 27)

Bruce Hood, PhD: Author of SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable (Episode 34)

Les Johnson, PhD: NASA physicist and author of Paradise Regained: The Regreening of Earth (Episode 31)

Brian Keating, PhD: astronomer and author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor. (Episode 74)

Sheril Kirshenbaum: Marine biologist and co-author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future. (Episode 32)

Jonathan Losos, PhD: Author of Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution (Episode 63)

Mur Lafferty: podcasting pioneer and awarding winning science fiction author (Episode 17, Episode 52 and Episode 61)

Eric Maisel, PhD: creativity coach and author of Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions (Episode 39)

Robert Martensen, MD: physician and author of A Life Worth Living: A Doctor’s Reflections on Illness in a High-Tech Era (Episode 28 and Episode 29)

Kirk Mcelhearn: American writer who has lived in France for many years (Episode 10)

Ted Meisner: host of The Secular Buddhist podcast (Episode 50)

Steven Novella, MD: Neurologist and host of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe (Episode 16)

Paul Offit, MD: dubunks myths about vaccine safety in Episode 25 and Episode 40

Jaak Panksepp, PhD: author of The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions, and Affective Neuroscience, The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions (Episode 51)

Massimo Pigliucci, PhD: Author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (Episode 37)

Rhodes Perry, author of Belonging At Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Cultivate an Inclusive Organization and host of The Out Entrepreneur (Episode 62)

Amanda Popei from the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association (Episode 75)

Patrick Pricken: was my first guest co-host in Episode 13

John Ratey, MD: author of Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization (Episode 55)

Emily Reese:  host of MPR podcast Top Score (Episode 49)

Roger Reid: author of Longleaf, Space, and Time, novels for young adults that combine mystery and science (Episode 46)

Michael Saag, MD:  author of Positive: One Doctor's Personal Encounters with Death, Life, and the US Healthcare System  (Episode 54)

Robert Schleip, PhD: leads emerging research about fascia at the University of Ulm (Episode 15)

Susan Schneider: author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind (BI 73)

Eugenie Scott, PhD: Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (Episode 21)

David Shariatmadari author of Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language. (Episode 77)

Jeremy Sherman, PhD: author of Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves. (Episode 76)

Scott Sigler: Best-selling author of science fiction horror thrillers (Episode 35)

Lee M. Silver, PhD: author of Challenging Nature: The Clash Between Biotechnology and Spirituality (Episode 9)

Tabitha Grace Smith: writer, podcaster and creator of the Buffy Between the Lines audio drama (Episode 18)

Carol Tavris, PhD: co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts (Episode 43)

Karen Traviss: science fiction writer, author of Gears of War and Halo: Glasslands (Episode 44).

Holly Tucker, PhD: author of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution (Episode 41)

Neel Varshney, MD, PhD: discusses his experiences as a Rhodes Scholar and as a medical student at Harvard (Episode 11)

Sarah Rhea Werner: writer and host of Girl in Space and Write Now (Episode 66)

Skyler White: author of and Falling, Fly (Episode 38)

Frank Wilczek: Nobel Prize winning physicist and author of Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces (Episode 23 and Episode 24)