No-one’s an expert at everything. Even the brainboxes researching in the UK’s top universities and know a whole ton about one thing are novices at a bunch of other stuff. Take Sarah Bell, expert at water engineering – she knows nothing about autism, but she’s always wondered whether it affects engineers more that other people. And luckily we have autism researcher Johanna Finneman to ask.
In every episode of The Brain Train Podcast, people like Sarah ask people like Johanna all the questions they’ve always wondered about; and the next episode the expert becomes the novice and people like Johanna quiz another expert on their specialist subject. It could be why the sky is blue or why everyone makes such a fuss about Shakespeare or how glaciers form – and the Brain Train continues. All aboard!