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The FutureFinder: Scientists Decode the Super Computer Inside Our Brains
Jun 9 2008, Kenneth

Scientists have decoded the short-term supercomputer that sits inside your head, the processor that wraps up trajectories, wind speeds, rebounds and rough surfaces into a gut feeling that lets you catch a football.

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