Brain science Thursday!

* The neurological roots of genius.

* How magicians control your mind, as explained by Penn and Teller.

* Scientists acknowledge another kind of synaesthesia: a perception of sound caused by flickering images.

Things I'm guaranteed to fall for:

* Video-game theme songs for the string quartet.

* Teller, after the apocalypse.

* Oil paintings inspired by video games and Internet memes.

* Articles titled "Welcome to the Post-Carbon World," with sci-fi subtitles like "Why do some planets survive their carbon crises and others don’t? A plan for how ours could."

* Stanley Kubrick.