The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.