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We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.
Sharon Begley
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Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
Sharon Begley
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The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.
Sharon Begley
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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.
Sharon Begley
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A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.
Sharon Begley
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With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.
Sharon Begley
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Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)
Sharon Begley
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The mind, of course, is just what the brain does for a living.
Sharon Begley
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The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
Sharon Begley
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The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.
Sharon Begley
