We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

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• David Eagleman:

  I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

• David Eagleman:

  Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

• David Eagleman:

  As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

• David Eagleman:

  Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represen

• David Eagleman:

  I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

• David Eagleman:

  My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on

• David Eagleman:

  What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

• David Eagleman:

  Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of th

• David Eagleman:

  A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of

• David Eagleman:

  The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of com