The Guardian has an article about the growing interest neuroscientists are showing in a long-neglected area of human cognition: that of belief. Not religious belief, specifically (the word, a perfectly good one, seems to be in the process of being hijacked into this narrower meaning); any belief. Humans believe things. Sometimes they're true, sometimes they're false; nothing in the term 'belief' presumes truth. But beliefs are important to humans, and so it's about time scientists (as opposed to philosophers) started interesting themselves in it.

Here's some light relief. Following a Welsh example, the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment in Belfast has decided to ban their staff from using the term 'brainstorming' on the grounds it might be offensive to those with mental disorders, especially epilepsy. Apparently, they will now have 'thought showers'. Political correctness gone mad.