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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Story is Your Brain, Outsourced

Most people think of story – first and foremost – as a fabulous source of entertainment. But did you ever wonder why we all love a good story? And we do – storytelling is a human universal. There is no society that doesn’t engage in it, delight in it, and depend on it. What’s up with that? That’s what neuroscientists wanted to know. Especially since the brain never devotes time or space to anything that doesn’t further its sole purpose: … More

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“I’m willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else’s living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another’s brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.”          –  John Updike