The mammalian brain evolved exquisite place memory because that was essential for survival. This is why squirrels have such a good memory for where they buried their nuts.

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, yucca (also called tapioca or cassava), sorghum, millet, beans, barley, and rye.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

We can be skeptical, suitably skeptical, and we can trust news outlets, some more than others.