South Carolina’s Joy Gaylor’s latest passion is helping women corporate executives transition to new careers as entrepreneurs. "Making the leap" is one of her favorite admonitory images. She used it again just the other day, reminding her blog readers "how crucial it is to make the leap even when all the pieces aren’t there, when [...]

An article appeared three days ago in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that future generations may look back on as prefiguring perhaps the greatest missed opportunity in human history. Given the grievous stranglehold that “cognitive biases” have on the human brain, the grim prognosis that Dr. Richard C. J. Somerville addresses in his article [...]

There are a number of new books out about storytelling, and nearly all of them are quick to cite the neuroscience behind the skill and why it matters.
In a review of one of those books, Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, neuroscientist David Eagleman explains why a good story is hugely [...]