Bas Kast Explained

Bas Kast
Birth Name:	Bas Kast
Birth Date:	1973 1, df=yes
Nationality:	German
Education:	European School Munich
Occupation:	Author Journalist
Employer:	Tagesspiegel

Bas Kast (born 1973 in Landau, residence in Rottendorf) is a German-Dutch science writer. He studied psychology and biology at the University of Konstanz^[1] and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working as a freelancer first for the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit and other magazines, he later became an editor and reporter for the Berlin-based newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.^[2] His articles have earned him a number of national and international prizes. Kast has written several popular science books, some of which became best selling books that have been translated in numerous languages.

Articles (English)

• "Decisions, decisions...", Nature, 2001 May 10;411(6834):126-8.
• "The best supporting actors", Nature, 2001 Aug 16;412(6848):674-6.

Awards

• Axel-Springer-Preis 2002 for the article "What is Empathy?"^[3]
• European Science Writers Award 2006
• freshwater snail Tylomelania baskasti is named in honor of Bas Kast^[4]

Books

• Revolution im Kopf (2003)
• Die Liebe und wie sich Leidenschaft erklärt (2004)
• Wie der Bauch dem Kopf beim Denken hilft (2007)
• Lauras Schweigen (2011) [Novel published using the alias Niels Nefarius]
• Ich weiß nicht, was ich wollen soll (2012)
• Und plötzlich macht es KLICK! (2015)
• Der Ernährungskompass. Das Fazit aller wissenschaftlichen Studien zum Thema Ernährung. (2018)
• Der Ernährungskompass – Das Kochbuch. (2019)
• Das Buch eines Sommers. Werde, wer du bist. (2020)
• Kompass für die Seele. Das Fazit neuester Studien zu Resilienz und innerer Stärke, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, München (2023)

Notes and References

1. News: Gesunde Ernährung: Ich wollte mich selbst heilen. Kast. Bas. 2018-03-06. Die Zeit. 2018-03-09. de-DE. 0044-2070.
2. Web site: Laureates. www.eurosciencestiftung.de. Euroscience Stiftung. 2018-03-09.
3. Web site: Auf der Suche nach dem Mitgefühl sciencegarden - Magazin für junge Forschung. 2012-07-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20120717011558/http://www.sciencegarden.de/content/2003-08/auf-der-suche-nach-dem-mitgef%C3%BChl. 2018-03-09. 17 July 2012.
4. von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2008). "Three new species of the freshwater snail genus Tylomelania (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae) from the Malili lake system, Sulawesi, Indonesia". Zootaxa 1852: 37-49. PDF.