Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, June 27, 2014

This article’s author sat down with cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz to discuss her immeasurably wonderful On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes — “one of the best books of 2013 and among the most interesting [she’s] ever read.” Their conversation ranges from Alice in Wonderland to John Cage to Susan Sontag, by way of dog cognition and productivity, in the service of understanding how different minds expose the many everyday wonderlands hidden before our eyes. […read more]