Anil Ananthaswamy

author, 'The Man Who Wasn't There'

Guest

Award-winning science journalist and author of The Man Who Wasn’t There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self

Anil Ananthaswamy on KCRW

We record this show at KCRW’s studio in Santa Monica, sitting in the chair in Studio Three. Or at least we think we do. Perhaps it’s not so simple.

'The Man Who Wasn’t There'

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