Blog and Podcasts - Ginger Campbell, MDhttps://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:32:46 +0000en-USSite-Server v@build.version@ (http://www.squarespace.com)Ginger Campbell, MD  hosts and produces two podcasts: Books and Ideas and the Brain Science Podcast.  On Books and Ideas she explores a wide range of topics  with a special focus on science and medicine. This blog contains the detailed show notes for the Books and Ideas podcast.

]]>Ginger Campbell chosen for 2022 Podcast Hall of FameAnnouncementsGinger Campbell, MDMon, 21 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2022/3/ginger-campbell-chosen-for-2022-podcast-hall-of-fame54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:6234980eacd10251f4dd2641

Dr. Virginia “Ginger” Campbell has been chosen for the 2022 Podcast Hall of Fame. This is podcasting’s most exclusive honor and several of her listeners will be joining her for the live ceremony being held in Los Angeles on March 25, 2022. Attend for free either live or online.

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]]>Ginger Campbell chosen for 2022 Podcast Hall of FameBS 193 What does it Mean to say the Mind is Embodied?Brain Science PodcastPodcast Show NotesGinger Campbell, MDFri, 18 Mar 2022 14:32:14 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2022/bs19354babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:6234964ef2771916ab8168d0

Episode 193 of Brain Science was inspired by the book Out of the Cave: A Natural Philosophy of Mind and Knowing by Mark L Johnson and Donald M Tucker. It explores two big picture questions: What does it mean to claim that the Mind is "embodied?" and How does this change our understanding of our place in the world?

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]]>BS 193 What does it Mean to say the Mind is Embodied?BS 192 Nina KrausBrain Science PodcastGinger Campbell, MDMon, 07 Feb 2022 12:01:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2022/bs19254babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:61f8787176036629fb0d0ce4

Nina Kraus (L click to play audio; R click to download)

Episode 192 of Brain Science is an interview with Nina Kraus, author of "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World." Dr. Kraus has spent 30 years exploring how the brain processes sound. We explore why sound processing involves much more that just the auditory cortex as well how the sounds we experience change our brains, both for better and for worse.

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]]>BS 192 Nina KrausBrain Science Celebrates 15th Anniversary (BS 1910Podcast Show NotesReview EpisodeGinger Campbell, MDMon, 31 Jan 2022 23:59:03 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2021/bs19154babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:61f873ce4032c258b39da1e9Brain Science launched as the Brain Science Podcast in December 2006, which means that December 2021 marked its 15th Anniversary. (To put this in perspective, the first official “podcasts” were launched only 2 years earlier in November 2004.)

BS 191 is our traditional year-end review episode, which, highlights the guests and key ideas shared in 2021. Interviews included return visits from Jeff Hawkins and David Eagleman. New guests included Anil Seth and Antonio Damasio, who both emphasized the importance of our bodies (not just our brains) in understanding Consciousness.

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]]>Brain Science Celebrates 15th Anniversary (BS 1910Antonio Damasio on "Feeling and Knowing" (BS 189)Brain Science PodcastGinger Campbell, MDMon, 01 Nov 2021 17:38:59 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2021-bs-189-damasio54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:616efbb02c744556690f33d9

The latest episode of Brain Science features highly respected neurologist and best-selling author Antonio Damasio. We talk about his new book Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious. Click here for complete show notes.

]]>Graying Rainbows: exploring the "messy middle" of coming outGraying Rainbows podcastInterviewsGinger Campbell, MDFri, 03 Jul 2020 13:28:51 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/gr38-ahles54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5eff301d837deb5ea502eb03

Tress Ahles (click to play audio)

Episode 38 of Graying Rainbows: Coming Out LGBT+ Later in Life features Minnesota educator Tress Ahles. She share the ups and downs of her coming out journey including the tension between the joy of embracing authenticity and the guilt of hurting those she loves.

Usually the guests on Graying Rainbows are somewhat further along on their journey, but given that so many listeners are just getting started, I really appreciate Tress’s courage and willingness to share what she calls being in “the messy middle.”

]]>Graying Rainbows: exploring the "messy middle" of coming out"Are You Sure?" Finds success on AmazonBrain Science PodcastGinger Campbell, MDFri, 03 Jul 2020 13:17:54 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/173-ays54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5eff2b4febaa0d2e0c8e0b63

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My book Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty was released on June 16, 2020 and thanks to listener support it was the #1 New Book in Neuroscience on Amazon for several days. It has made it to #4 among all Neuroscience books. Are You Sure? explores the evidence that much of what our brain does is outside our conscious awareness (and control), and more importantly it discusses the implications of that discovery.

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]]>"Are You Sure?" Finds success on AmazonBooks and Ideas goes on HiatusGinger Campbell, MDFri, 03 Jul 2020 12:57:04 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/hiatus54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5eff28a0e7b8e202d6f5c30b

Although I announced this during the last episode of Books and Ideas, I want to remind everyone that the show will be on hiatus until November 2020 while I work on my writing projects, including promoting the release of the second edition of my book Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty.

Books and Ideas doesn’t fall easily into any niche, but I really enjoy interviewing guests from a wide variety of fields. It would be helpful to me to hear from listeners to help me decide whether to resume the show in November.

]]>Books and Ideas goes on HiatusExploring Language with David Shariatmadori (BI 77)Books and Ideas PodcastInterviewsSciencePodcast Show NotesGinger Campbell, MDFri, 17 Apr 2020 08:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2020/4/bi-77-shariatmadori54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5e989d575a042d480074f717

David Shariatmadari (click to play, R click to download mp3)

This month’s episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with David Shariatmadari author of "Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language." We explore some of the common myths about language. This includes a follow up of our recent discussion on Brain Science about the evidence against the assumption that language is an instinctive.

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  • Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari

  • Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking by Cecilia Heyes

  • Pullum, GK and Schultz, BC, (2002) Empirical assessment of stimulus of poverty arguments. The Linguistic Review, 19, ?.

  • Hsu, H J, and Bishop, DV (2014) Sequence-specific procedural learning deficits in children with specific language impairment. Developmental Science,17(3), 352-365.

  • Tomblin, J B, Shribirg, L , Murray, J, Patil, S, and Williams, C. (2004). Speech and Language characteristics associated with a 7/13 translocation involving FOXP2. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 130, 97-?.

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]]>Jeremy Sherman on the Origins of Purpose (BI 76)Books and Ideas PodcastInterviewsPhilosophyPodcast Show NotesScienceGinger Campbell, MDSun, 15 Mar 2020 08:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2020/3/bi76-sherman54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5e6a4a360073e27da31eff40

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Several years ago I interviewed Terrence Deacon about his fascinating book Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter. His goal was to propose a theory of how purpose evolved in a universe without purpose. His argument was persuasive, but highly technical. In this month’s episode of Books and Ideas I interview his longtime colleague Jeremy Sherman. His book Neither Ghost nor Machine: The Emergence and Nature of Selves makes Deacon’s ideas highly accessible to a wider audience.

What is the mystery of purpose? Sherman writes that the mystery of purpose is also “how aims emerge from aimlessness.” Then he argues that since only selves can have aims “the mystery of purpose becomes how selves and aims emerge from self-less aimless physics and chemistry.” We are ultimately exploring the mystery of how life emerged from a lifeless universe, but the answer is NOT evolution because we are looking for something that emerged before natural selection. It is a fascinating question and the possible solution proposed by Deacon and Sherman is fascinating because it doesn’t sidestep or evade the ultimate question of how meaning arose naturally in a universe without meaning.


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]]>Amanda Poppei: Humanism and Unitarian Universalism (BI 75)Books and Ideas PodcastInterviewsPodcast Show NotesGinger Campbell, MDSat, 15 Feb 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2020/2/bi-75-poppei-uuha54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5e456c94e6e2e249f7c1bd12

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Episode 75 of Books and Ideas is a follow up of my previous interview of Becky Hale, past-president of the American Humanist Association (AHA). I am fascinated by the relationship between modern Humanism and Unitarian Universalism. In the US there is a long history between Unitarians and the Humanist movement, which dates back to the first Humanist Manifesto, which was released back in 1933.

Listen to my interview with Amanda Poppei from the Unitarian Universalist Humanist Association (UUHA) to learn more about this history and

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]]>Brian Keating Searches for the Origin of the Universe (BI 74)Books and Ideas PodcastInterviewsPodcast Show NotesScienceGinger Campbell, MDWed, 15 Jan 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2020/1/brian-keating-searches-for-the-origin-of-the-universe-bi-7454babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5e0f9fa0134b6c231981ae00

Brian Keating

This month's episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with astronomer Brian Keating about his memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor. His book is a first hand look at the hard work behind the scientific effort to determine how the universe really began, but as the title implies, it also contains a candid account of how striving for the Nobel Prize can be both motivating, but strangely counterproductive.

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]]>Susan Schneider, author of "Artificial You" (BI 73)Books and Ideas PodcastInterviewsPhilosophyPodcast Show NotesGinger Campbell, MDSun, 15 Dec 2019 09:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2019/12/73-schneider54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5df3c5824c2e38505c0caa4c

Susan Schneider (Click to play interview)

This month’s episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with Susan Schneider, author of a fascinating new book called Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind. Schneider's book goes beyond the question of whether AI might become conscious to issues that might affect us on a more personal level.

I am cross posting this in the feed for Brain Science because there is an obvious overlap with the issue of consciousness, which we often discuss on Brain Science.

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]]>Brain Science Concludes Series on ConsciousnessBrain Science PodcastNeuroscienceGinger Campbell, MDMon, 25 Nov 2019 14:05:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2019/11/brainscience-consciousness54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5dd58e79a937f83a578f9d4a

Christof Koch from the Allen Institute for Brain Science

BS 163 with Christof Koch is the last of our 4 part series on the neuroscience of consciousness.

We talk about his new book The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed and he explains why he feels that the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) are not enough to explain experience. He also introduces the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness.

In case you missed them, here are all four episodes:

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]]>Brain Science Concludes Series on ConsciousnessGraying Rainbows celebrates its First AnniversaryGraying Rainbows podcastGinger Campbell, MDWed, 20 Nov 2019 19:05:10 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/gr654babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5dd58a908c9897244d02a0d9

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I have been podcasting since 2006, which means Brain Science is about to turn thirteen years old. I can’t say the same thing for Books and Ideas since it is coming off a two year hiatus between January 2017 and January 2019. In contrast, my news show Graying Rainbows: Coming Out LGBT+ Later in Life just hit the one year mark in November.

Graying Rainbows is very different from my long running shows, both of which tend to focus on science and features interviews with authors and experts from a wide variety of fields. Graying Rainbows focuses on the personal stories of people from across the LGBT+ spectrum. I hoping this diversity will help set the show apart from other podcasts in the genre.

Graying Rainbows started out as a weekly show, but it has now settle down to a more comfortable monthy schedule. This allows me to keep all my shows fresh and regular. Look for Graying Rainbows in your favorite podcasting app on the first Monday every month.

Today I will share the first episode, which tells you a little bit about my story and why I started another podcast.

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]]>Explore "The Hidden World of the Fox" with Adele Brand (BI 72)Books and Ideas PodcastInterviewsPodcast Show NotesScienceGinger Campbell, MDFri, 15 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2019/11/explore-the-hidden-world-of-the-fox-with-adele-brand54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5dcc7ad38844ec265a5c86d4

Adele Brand (click to play interview)

This month’s episode of Books and Ideas is an interview with Adele Brand, author of the fascinating new book The Hidden World of the Fox. Brand is a mammal ecologist and wildlife photographer. Her books combines personal stories with some surprising scientific discoveries about the fox, a canid that is uniquely qualified to survive within the midst of human culture. Share this episode with fox lovers and any one else who is interested in how wildlife manages to flourish, even within urban environments.

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]]>"Rethinking Consciousness with Michael Graziano (BS 162)Brain Science PodcastPodcast Show NotesInterviewsNeuroscienceGinger Campbell, MDWed, 13 Nov 2019 21:37:09 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/2019/11/rethinking-consciousness-with-michael-graziano-bs-16354babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5dcbda5a8471b34943a3e51a

Dr. Michael Graziano (click to play interview)

How does the brain generate subjective experience? This is what philosophers of mind have called Qualia and neuroscientist Michael Graziano proposes a fascinating answer In his new book Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience. In BS 162 explains how his Attention Schema Theory compliments several current theories of Consciousness by answering this critical question.

His theory had two critical components: one is that whatever circuitry the brain uses to attribute consciousness to others, is also used to attribute consciousness to ourselves. Second, a critical feature of this circuitry is that it provides an incomplete picture of what the brain is actually doing. Since awareness of what the brain is actually doing provides no survival advantage, we have the sense that our Mind is non-physical.

This may seem strange, but it is consistent with how we know our other senses work. For instance, we know the world we experience visually is highly processed, rather than an accurate depiction of the world around us. (Note: the is part 3 of a 4 part series, but episodes can be enjoyed in any order.)

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]]>A Podcasting Retrospective (BI 71)Books and Ideas PodcastPodcast Show NotesGinger Campbell, MDTue, 15 Oct 2019 08:00:00 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/bi71-shepodcastslive54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5da48e7d4c18b6612f37d18f

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In the latest episode of Books and Ideas (BI 71) I share an adapted version of the talk I gave last week at the first annual She Podcasts Live event, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia Oct 10-13, 2019. My talk is about my podcasting journey with some reflections on how podcasting has changed over the last 13 years. This talk was originally given to aspiring women podcasters but I have adapted for a broader audience. I look forward to sharing a bit of my journey with you.

You don’t have to be interested in podcasting to enjoy this episode, but if you think you might want to give it a try some day, this episode is for you.


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]]>"Lesbian Epiphanies" (GR 28)Graying Rainbows podcastGinger Campbell, MDMon, 23 Sep 2019 15:04:27 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/gr28-lesbian-epiphanies54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5d88dbb69612366e19c99068

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The most recent episode of my new podcast Graying Rainbows: Coming Out LGBT+ Later in Life is a solo episode in which I discuss the book Lesbian Epiphanies: Women Coming Out in Later Life by the late Karol L. Jensen. We explore the question of why so many women do not discover their attraction to other women until after marriage. Jensen's book was published 20 years ago, but many of the cultural factors she identified remain powerful in women's lives.

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]]>Historian Liz Covart explores "Ben Franklin's World" (BI 70)Books and Ideas PodcastHistoryInterviewsPodcast Show NotesGinger Campbell, MDMon, 23 Sep 2019 14:48:17 +0000https://www.virginiacampbellmd.com/blog/bi70-lizcovart54babed6e4b0b0eaa1091650:54dbcfbfe4b0bd2b206cf910:5d88d107da44215c179c6933

Liz Covart (Click to play, Right click to download audio)

It was an honor to interview historian Liz Covart, host of the highly regard show Ben Franklin’s World, which is a podcast that explores Early American history. We talked about why this period of our history remains vitally important as well as some of the challenges that face historians.





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