019 Forget and Imagine with Lauren Aguirre The Padverb Podcast with KMO

Lauren Aguirre is an award-winning science journalist who has produced documentaries, short-form video series, podcasts, interactive games and blogs for the PBS series "Nova." She has covered everything from asteroids to human origins to art restoration, but is particularly fascinated by the brain. "The Memory Thief" is Lauren's first book.


In this conversation, Lauren and KMO discuss:



02:03 – Lauren's memory incident
06:42 – Waking up and not knowing where you are
08:28 – Retrograde and anterograde amnesia
13:10 – The fentanyl connection
20:53 – Experimental brain surgery
24:18 – Amnesia sufferers' self-worth
29:13 – Faking anterograde amnesia
31:18 – Science communication
33:38 – Disappointment in science
34:53 – The Memory Thief's target audience
36:28 – Multilayer narratives
39:13 – Our shared experience of forgetting
43:08 – Remembering our remembering of events
44:38 – The trauma connection
47:35 – Optogenetics
49:08 – The scientific process and the pursuit of truth



Lauren Aguirre (The Guest):



laurenaguirre.com
@lsaguirre




KMO (The Host):



Twitter: @Kayemmo
en.padverb.com/kmo




Padverb:



The Padverb Telegram Channel:
t.me/padverbpodcast