Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain

Why do we find statistical flukes so perturbing and extraordinary - like a run of forty tails when tossing a coin? Such events and such arrangements are no less likely than any other. The significance is only in our minds.

Why do children sometimes speak as though talking aloud to themselves, even when, on the face of it, they are talking to someone else?

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