From Edge, a "master class": Danny Kahneman on a short course in thinking about thinking. Whether we know it or not, we're all street-corner psychics; without the ability to divine others' thoughts and feelings, we couldn't handle the simplest social situations—or achieve true intimacy with others. Have scientists discovered intuition? Whenever humans recognize a mistake, a mysterious wave of electricity passes through the brain; researchers think the signal could explain addiction, error correction and even the sixth sense. From Tikkun, an article on neuroscience and fundamentalism: You make your own brain, so start thinking creatively. More news from the savannah: People seem to have “animal-monitoring modules” in their brains—which is bad news for road safety. A review of Hot Thought: Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional Cognition by Paul Thagard. A review of A Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science by Daniel Gross. The science behind personality: Why do some of us worry endlessly about our lives, while others sail through without a care?
