Never Squirrel The Orange Peel Darkly In The Furrow
Just doing my part for brain health:
When […] patterns break down — as when a hiker stumbles across an easy chair sitting deep in the woods, as if dropped from the sky — the brain gropes for something, anything that makes sense…
…Now a study suggests that, paradoxically, this same sensation [of disorientation] may prime the brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss — in mathematical equations, in language, in the world at large.
Reactions to the study have been making the round of the Internets. This morning the Times Health column has a look.
Monkey.
