Out-thinking extinction.

Heard this on the radio on my drive home from the post-office: gripping. Subject is the nature of complex problems, befuddlement, gridlock, etc...

"We need more physicists in Washington DC" [& perhaps inside our heads]:

Out-thinking Extinction: "Our brains may not be evolving quickly enough to manage rapidly developing and complex problems such as climate change, nuclear proliferation and terrorism, writes author Rebecca Costa. But, she believes, recent research on the neuroscience of insight may help mankind cope with adversity."

". . .Unproven beliefs became the substitute for facts. Once this happens, as the practice of beliefs cannot result in real solutions, the inevitability of failure takes place, and disaster is the only outcome."

Excellent interview with book author Rebecca Costa ("The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction"); above NY Journal of Books review by Geri Spieler excerpted via Amazon.com.