In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.