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Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Gary Marcus, author of Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind published by Houghton Mifflin Co. Dr. Gary Marcus is Director of the NYU Infant Language Learning Center, and Professor of Psychology at New York University. Author of The Birth of the Mind, The Algebraic Mind: Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science, and editor of The Norton Psychology Reader, Marcus's research on developmental cognitive neuroscience has been published in over forty articles in leading journals such as Science, Nature, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, and the Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. In 1996 he won the Robert L. Fantz award for new investigators in cognitive development, and in 2002-2003 Marcus he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in Social and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His 2008 book Kluge was a New York Times Editor's Choice. Visit his website.

Who isn't fascinated by the way our minds work? Ever wonder why we 'space out'? Procrastinate? Or why we believe in horoscopes? Well, this guy has the answers. Gary Marcus - a professor, writer and thinker. He's got a new book that says our brains are not the supercomputers, we think they are. Instead, he says they're Kluges. A cobbled together contraption - like something MacGyver would throw together. Or in scientific speak, an inelegant, inefficient, clumsy system that succeeds in solving a problem. nd this affects everything! Our memories, beliefs. choices, and our happiness. Basically, our brains are fragile. In fact, researchers say, nearly 1 in 5 Canadians will develop some form of mental illness in their life. Gary also says our brains are vulnerable to spin doctors. And in times of crisis, we side with what's familiar. He also points out people are the only species smart enough to plan for the future. Yet dumb enough to ditch those plans for short-term gratification. Getting a little freaked?

What can people learn about you on the internet? Does the rise of social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook threaten your privacy and your future reputation? We'll talk this hour with Daniel J. Solove, associate professor at George Washington University Law School and author of "The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet" (Yale University Press, 2007).