Scientific American's Quarterly on the Mind

Walking through Boston Logan airport--my mind numbed by TSA's gentle touch, beeping people movers, businessfolk yakking on cellphones and the glare of a thousand florescent suns--I spotted an intriguing magazine hidden amoungst the alternating covers of John Paul II and various and sundry midrifts. Scientific American has put out a quarterly magazine addressing the brain, consciousness, learning, creativity, neuroscience and the nature of the mind, titled, simply enough, Mind. The current issue is a must-read for anyone in the broader facilitation-slash-consulting-slash-creative arts field; basically, anyone interested in unleashing creativity and understanding the underlying psysiology beneath our power to create should be enthralled by the publication. The recent issue contains articles on master mapper of emotions, Antonio Damasi; the original neuroscientist, Leonardo di Vinci; the unfairness reflex in primates observed by Emory University's Frans van der Waal; the left brain-right brain civil war; and what...