There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

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

When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisphere (the one without language), the patient will get up and start walking. If you stop him and ask why he's leaving, his left hemisphere, cooking up an answer, will say something like "I was going to get a drink of water."

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.