Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey (Science on Tap Livestream Show)

Florence Williams explores the fascinating, cutting-edge science of heartbreak while seeking creative ways to mend her own.
When her 25yr marriage unexpectedly falls apart, journalist Florence Williams expects the loss to hurt. What she doesn’t expect is that she’ll end up in the hospital, examining close-up the way our cells listen to loneliness. She travels to the frontiers of the science of “social pain” to learn why heartbreak hurts so much and why so much of the conventional wisdom about it is wrong.

Florence Williams is the author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative. A contributing editor at Outside Magazine, her writing has appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, and many other outlets.

Listen to our podcast episode of Florence’s talk about her book The Nature Fix recorded in March 2018!
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