Little Atoms 327 – Jesse Bering & Nichi Hodgson

Jesse Bering, PhD, is a frequent contributor to Scientific American and Slate. His writing has also appeared in New York magazine, The Guardian, and The New Republic, among other publications, and has been featured by NPR, Playboy Radio, the BBC, and more. The author of The God Instinct and Why is the Penis Shaped Like That? Bering is the former director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University, Belfast, and began his career as a professor at the University of Arkansas. Jesse’s latest book is Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us. Also this week, writer Nichi Hodgson recommends Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita.