Bas Kast
{{short description|German science writer (born 1973)}}
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| nationality = German
| education = European School Munich
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Journalist
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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{{Cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2018-02/gesunde-ernaehrung-altern-sport-bas-kast|title=Gesunde Ernährung: Ich wollte mich selbst heilen|last=Kast|first=Bas|date=2018-03-06|work=Die Zeit|access-date=2018-03-09|language=de-DE|issn=0044-2070}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurosciencestiftung.de/preistraeger_e.html|title=Laureates|website=www.eurosciencestiftung.de|publisher=Euroscience Stiftung|access-date=2018-03-09}} His articles have earned him a number of national and international prizes.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} Kast has written several popular science books, some of which became best selling books that have been translated in numerous languages.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}
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?"{{Cite web|url=http://www.sciencegarden.de/content/2003-08/auf-der-suche-nach-dem-mitgef%C3%BChl|title=Auf der Suche nach dem Mitgefühl {{!}} sciencegarden - Magazin für junge Forschung|date=2012-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717011558/http://www.sciencegarden.de/content/2003-08/auf-der-suche-nach-dem-mitgef%C3%BChl|access-date=2018-03-09|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 July 2012}}
- European Science Writers Award 2006
- freshwater snail Tylomelania baskasti is named in honor of Bas Kastvon 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. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01852p049.pdf PDF].
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)
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