The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does When You’re Not Looking, by Michael C. Corballis

Good for Corballis. Of course it's good for our mental health to have a wide imaginative background -- many references from our past dips into the various humanities all zinging around inside us yet. They beg attention, said the poet Joseph Brodsky. That's what poetry is, the scaffolding for things to echo, reverberate. So, with good souls like Corballis and Brodsky, how is it that so many university departments taboo ref to any humanities -- as if all now need most to mire themselves most narrowly instead?