The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Episode 183 - Amanda Gefter's search for Peter Putnam
Amanda Gefter was researching a famed physicist when she kept seeing the name "Putnam" in his journals. That led her to an unknown but brilliant scientist who came up with an explanation of how the human brain works.
You can read Amanda's remarkable Nautilus article by clicking here.
Want to read some of Peter Putnam's unpublished papers? Amanda has posted some of them on her website:
https://www.amandagefter.com/ -- and there's lots more on this website run by Barry Spinello, https://www.peterputnam.org/
And don't forget about Amanda's book! You can order it by clicking here.
And, as if that isn't enough, Amanda co-hosts a podcast, too! It's called Booklab, and you can listen to it by clicking here.
Amanda Gefter
I am a freelance writer specializing in fundamental physics, cosmology, cognitive science and philosophy, and author of the book Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn (Bantam, January 2014).
My writing has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Nautilus, Nature, Scientific American, Sierra, Quanta, Undark, Edge.org, NOVA Next, Sky and Telescope, Technology Review, Astronomy, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and New Scientist magazine, where I previously served as Books & Arts editor. I also co-host BookLab, a podcast about popular science books, with science journalist Dan Falk.
As someone with delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD), I'm fascinated by the science of circadian rhythms. My 2016 Modern Love essay, "The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy," published in The New York Times, formed the basis of the episode by the same name in Season 2 of the Modern Love TV series on Amazon Prime.
I was a 2012-13 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and have a Master's degree in the Philosophy and History of Science from the London School of Economics.
