Assorted links
1. Felix Salmon also recommends the new Bob Pozen book.
2. Are dreams just exercise for the brain? I enjoyed this line: “I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses…"
3. Rene Girard on war and apocalypse.
4. How much do (non-related) animals cooperate?
5. Via Kat, why we fall for "fast news."
6. How to improve the health care bill, by David Leonhardt.