Bas Kast
Bas Kast (born January 16, 1973 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German-Dutch science author .
Life
Kast - son of a German father and a Dutch mother - grew up bilingual . He went to school in Munich and California , studied psychology and biology at the universities of Konstanz and Bochum as well as with Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation . In 1997 he was awarded a German Study Prize by the Körber Foundation .
He received his journalistic training with the magazines GEO , Nature and the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel in Berlin ; There he started as a volunteer in 2000 , became an editor in the science department in 2002 and was a reporter from 2005 to 2008 . Since then he has been working as a freelance journalist. Kast was awarded the Axel Springer Prize (2002), the Heureka Journalist Prize from Sanofi-Aventis (2004) and the European Science Writers Award from Euroscience (2006).
In 2003, his first book was published under the title Revolution im Kopf , in which he describes how brain research is changing our image of man and reality. The following year he published his book Love and How Passion Is Explained . With him he was on the bestseller list of the news magazine Der Spiegel for several weeks and also achieved international success. In 2007, the book How the stomach helps the head to think came on the market, which also developed into a bestseller . In the following years he published non-fiction books on the subjects of happiness and creativity .
Kast has suffered from a narrowing of the coronary arteries since 2013 . After an attack of angina pectoris while jogging at the age of 40, he changed his diet and researched for three years for his book The Nutrition Compass, published in 2018 . The conclusion of all scientific studies on nutrition . In the same year, the book was named Knowledge Book of the Year by Bild der Wissenschaft .
With his popular science books , Kast is often invited as a guest on television and radio programs. The freshwater snail Tylomelania baskasti , whose malacological research he had supported, was named after him. He is married to the stem cell researcher Sina Bartfeld, has two children and lives in Rottendorf .
Publications
- Revolution in the head. The future of the brain (= instructions for use for the 21st century ). Berliner Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-442-76150-0 .
- Love and how passion is explained. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2004, ISBN 978-3-10-038301-3 ; Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-16198-0 .
- How the stomach helps the head think. The power of intuition. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-038302-0 ; Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17451-5 .
- I don't know what to want Why it is so difficult for us to decide and where to find happiness. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-10-038303-7 ; Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-596-19192-5
- And suddenly it clicks! The craft of creativity or how the good ideas come to mind. S. Fischer, Frankfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-10-038304-4 .
- The nutritional compass. The conclusion of all scientific studies on nutrition. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-570-10319-7 .
- The Nutrition Compass - The Cookbook . C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-570-10381-4 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bas Kast in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bas Kast at Discogs (English)
- Official website of Bas Kast
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bas Kast. "The mind behaves stupid sometimes." ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview by Marion Püning with Bas Kast
- ↑ a b Wanderer between the worlds of words in: Brain & Spirit - The magazine for psychology, brain research and medicine (June 2013, PDF)
- ↑ Free of charge for the lecture about flashes of inspiration suedkurier.de, February 21, 2016
- ↑ I wanted to heal myself zeit.de, March 6, 2018
- ↑ Axel Springer Prize
- ↑ Heureka Journalist Award
- ^ European Science Writers Award
- ↑ Bas Kast conquers fourth place on the SPIEGEL bestseller list - book report . In: book report . March 21, 2018 ( buchreport.de [accessed March 23, 2018]).
- ↑ The Nutrition Compass ravensbuch.de, May 2018
- ↑ How we eat properly radioeins.de, March 17, 2018
- ↑ How we eat properly rbb-online.de, March 17, 2018
- ↑ On the search for the ideal diet sr.de, June 25, 2018
- ↑ Bas Kast and his "nutrition compass": Is fast food to blame for a heart attack? June 15, 2018
- ↑ Suddenly it clicks! How do we come up with good ideas? tele-akademie.de, January 31, 2016
- ↑ T. Rintelen and M. Glaubrecht: Three new species of the freshwater snail genus Tylomelania (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae ) from the Malili lake system, Sulawesi, Indonesia. In: Zootaxa. Volume 1852, 2008, pp. 37–49, (PDF; 2.1 MB) , see also Wikispecies: Tylomelania baskasti .
- ↑ What else can you eat, Mr. Kast? , mainpost.de , March 16, 2018
- ↑ What makes us really healthy and slim: the most important findings, the best methods stern.de, March 10, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kast, Bas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch science author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th January 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landau in the Palatinate |