It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.

You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.

Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.