Jeremy Sherman defines himself as a normal, informal guy with a colorful vocabulary, infectious humor and deep scholarship – tons of content across the sciences and humanities. A Masters in Public Policy from UC Berkeley and a PhD in how organisms shop among interpretations, he is a lead researcher on one of today's most prominent and promising explanations for how mattering emerged from matter, the struggle for existence from aimless chemistry. A pioneer psychoproctologist – 25 years working to explaining total jerks and how to stop them without becoming one. A shamelessly honest introspectator, who uses funny personal examples to illustrate and explain the shit people do.

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