Further to my mention of the intuition experiment at the Edinburgh Science Festival - a report of the results suggests the idea that women are more intuitive than men is incorrect. Of course, it seems likely that the subject is rather more complicated than that; you might want to check out my research reports on gender differences.

And this is perhaps a little off-topic, but the Boston Globe has an op-ed piece on how fewer young Americans are reading literature, and what this means for society.