Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

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.

You'd think people would realize they're bad at multitasking and would quit. But a cognitive illusion sets in, fueled in part by a dopamine-adrenaline feedback loop, in which multitaskers think they are doing great.

We're making more and more decisions every day. I think a lot of us feel overloaded by the process.

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.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.