This was a nice holiday surprise for me: I'm featured on the cover of Italy's Style magazine.
(Click on the cover to read the article)
Last month it was Brad Pitt, and the month before Mick Jagger. Good company!

Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A third position, agnosticism, is often an uninteresting stance in which a person simply questions whether his traditional religious story is true or not true. I call myself a possibilian. Find out why.
Wednesday is Indigo Blue: Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia has been awarded the Montaigne Medal, Eric Hoffer Award for Books.

Why should the US invest in brain science? See David's opinion in the New York Times.
Read David's Op-Ed piece in The New York Times regarding time and Obama's withdrawal plan.