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Mind Wide Open : Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life Condition:Well Read Bad Lands is a wittyIn this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's really going on inside. He asks: