A review by joyfulme
Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano

4.0

I chanced on this book in my local library and found a fun read for my highschoolers- a lively layman’s tour of the intersectionality of neural, comparative, developmental, and behavioral psychology; with physics (including laws of thermodynamics and time/space theories); astronomy; the history of timekeeping technology; atmospheric presence of radioactive carbon… kind of like the meeting of Einstein and Piaget (of which there is a brief account.) I love how this will appeal to multiple disciplines that my kids love, growing their understanding without boring them.

Possible parental concerns: The effects of drugs (TSH in particular) on perception of time, and a singular mention of Darwinian theory (plus a passing suggestion of theafterlife being an invention to cope with death). No language or sexuality.