Understanding Understanding

In today’s Times, David Brooks writes about young neuroscientists finding sources of cultural differences and prejudices. Here are two of the cool findings he reports.

This study suggests that readers do mental simulation when they comprehend a story.

Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth.

2008 voting patterns in the South match patterns of cotton production in the antebellum South, which match…

“Have you ever noticed that herds of grazing animals all face the same way?”