Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.

Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.

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

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

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.

Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.