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This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain This Weekend Eating The Year's Best Holiday Cookie.

Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 9 a.m.

You\u2019ve made it through another week in the year 2020. Congratulations!

Join Nerdette for a look back at the week in vaccines, virtual holiday parties and Greta\u2019s new favorite ridiculous TV show, The Wilds, alongside TIME Magazine\u2019s Eliana Dockterman and NPR\u2019s Barrie Hardymon.

Then we have an amazing conversation about your brain \u2014 yes, yours \u2014 and how tired it gets when you make it lug your body around all day. Lisa Feldman Barrett is the neuroscientist responsible for Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain, a lovely book of brain essays. She gives us one and a half lessons for free.

And finally, what\u2019s the best holiday cookie of 2020? Bon Appetit senior staff writer Alex Beggs tells us \u2014 OK fine, it\u2019s this one \u2014 but she also gives us plenty of warnings (i.e. level of difficulty = 11). Join us!